Tube Failure

As Glenn said, go to a motorcycle dealer. They can't afford to have tubes fail. Try a Harley dealer first.
 
Kurt. Short answer no. I did not use talcum powered or inflate, deflate, and re-inflate. Will do this when I get home form work.

Their is deep pitting on the inside of the rims. I had taken a wire wheel to them before I installed to smooth them up.

As for the tube, they have no structural strength, you can tare them apart with you bare hands. It is almost like the vocalization process was not done or done wrong.

The motorcycle tubes are a great idea.

I was shopping at a repeatable Parts house in San Jose, and price was not a consideration on the tube this was all that was offered.

BTW the tubes are made in India.

Scott
 
"Their is deep pitting on the inside of the rims."

I think you may have just answered your own question. You probably should repair those pits as they will quickly "chew" a tube up no matter how good it is made from my personal experience.
 
Coker had a problem with tubes awhile ago. I thought it had been corrected we suffered three out of seven failures on new tubes we got. Those were from Denmark. There had been failures on tubes from Mexico too. I hope we are not seeing that scenario return as we are hitting the road for Marquette in a couple of days.
 
I had two tube failures out of four, from Chinese tubes, sold by Cokers.
They failed in the seams.
MIKE :)
 
I had 7 tube failures on a round the USA trip 3 years ago. The tubes were from Coker and were made in Denmark. They looked excellent and were quite thick but they split right down the middle in the drop center of the rim. One was in my garage before the tire made one rotation. No, they were not damaged during installation.

I stopped at Coker in Chatanooga TN and Corky Coker wouldn't even make eye contact let alone discuss the problem.

I now run Goodyears from Kelsey Tire.

The tubes I bought from Snyder and Bratton were from China and are still holding up after 10,000 miles.

Richard
Anaheim CA
 
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