GUYS I POPPED A TUBE 🙁 I cased a lil curb. I had to carry my bike about a mile.
Are Walmart tubes good enough?? Should I order some and wait?
Also my tires are 2.4in, and these tubes all say 1.75-2.25.
by papi-peep
GUYS I POPPED A TUBE 🙁 I cased a lil curb. I had to carry my bike about a mile.
Are Walmart tubes good enough?? Should I order some and wait?
Also my tires are 2.4in, and these tubes all say 1.75-2.25.
by papi-peep
14 Comments
They will work
exact same as any other tube on the market, go for whats cheapest.
I am not in USA but I had bad experience with tubes from a supermarket.I know a dude who said that he buys tubes in bulk it maybe a viable option for you .Also get patching kit.
At $5 this is officially the cheapest BMX part I have ever bought and probably the cheapest one I ever will buy
Tubes a tube. I bought a pile of them from BMX Guru for $1.99 each but would totally run that walmart tube and have in the past.
Tubes sure tires NOO
I’d go odyssey. The price is marginally different and you’re supporting the industry 🤌 also I’m sure they’re better 😬
TUBE IS TUBE
i ride the cheapest tubes i can, only times i had punctures where either because of not enough pressure, or because of something going through the tires.
Always keep one on your backpack, with whatever tools you need to replace a tube. (i also recommend tools to re-position the bars and take the brake pads off if you run brakes.)
no different than any other branded tube you’d buy, they’re all made in the same factory with different labels.
I double up the cheap tubes, take a popped one and wrap it around a new one and you get extra thick thorn resistant tubes.
Back when I used to work in a bike shop our cost on tubes was $1 per, then markup was like $7. Crazy margins. This was also 2004’ish so I imagine the margins may have tightened a bit but still. They all work. As long as it’s not a “slime tube” assuming they even still exist. They were awful
Ive used department store tubes most of my life and i rarely get flats compared to others, they are usually a bit heavier than big bmx name brands but they’re thick and last long
tubes is tubes is tubes for the most part. your walmart might stock the goodyears if that makes you feel better but a nail will pop a $10 tube the same as a $5 tube