I received three of the Rene Herse 584x45-68mm variant in the mail this morning, and installed two on my custom Falconer without issue. The third will serve as a spare. They measured 56g each and the butyl tubes I removed weighed 358g combined, so that's over a half-pound of weight reduction. Mine have the black (longer) valve stem, and the very cute blue valve caps.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 9:51:53 AM UTC-7 Ted Durant wrote: > On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 7:02:25 AM UTC-5 lconley wrote: > > FYI - The RH instructions say to inflate slowly and immediately deflate > the tubes completely after the tire pops into position, then reinflate. > > > Well, I put them on my Riv Road today, was very careful with the > installation, and had the same result. One of the tubes broke at the valve > stem immediately on inflation in the tire. The rims are narrow Fir, and the > tires are a pretty tight fit. I used levers to remove the tire but was able > to reinstall without levers. New tires with only a few rides on them. > > So, I've needed 6 tubes to get 4 tires going. That makes the economics a > little harder to justify. It also makes carrying a new one as a spare a bit > of Russian roulette. > > Ted Durant > Milwaukee WI USA > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e0fe71fb-b429-4626-986e-3fc6bfe2f138n%40googlegroups.com.
