Please excuse my ignorance. I almost feel that this post will cause me to be banned from the site after my first posting.
Here it goes:
Do I dare put Slime Lite tubes on my 303’s? Am I an idiot for spending that kind of cash and then loading them up with a tube double the weight of a common lightweight tube? My only grievance is that the Zipp extension valve doesnt work well with the Slim tubes even with the teflon tape.
Ive been running the regular slim tubes on my road bike’s Ksyrium SLs. I havent had a flat in over 6 months (since putting them on)!
I guess part two of the this question, is: now that Ive found there is a lite version of these tubes, does anybody have an opinion if they are any good and whether it is worth the expense of switching.
I havent had a flat in over 6 months (since putting them on)!
Don’t necessarily attribute that to the slime. I haven’t had a flat in nearly two years with regular tubes (not super thin race type). Of course now that I mention this I might as well go out to the garage and change both of them right?
I should also mention that I took my new tri bike out for its first 75+ last week, and I flatted the rear twice. The second time I was about a mile from home, and I had to walk it. It was the tube.
Same route I take with the road bike. I guess this is why it stung a little (since not having flatted in a while).
The upside was that I was so ticked-off, that my dehydrated/flat driven post-bike run was faster than usual.
