Heavy duty 16x1.75 tubes???

[HermitJohn]

I have an ancient Yazoo mower with bicycle wheels. Love the mower, hate dealing with the tires. Ever since I've had the thing, its been constant battle keep tires inflated. This summer not one flat, then today with my final mowing before winter, I've had one tire off 3 times now. Paper thin tube and more patches than tube.

Will say I am impressed with pkg Chinese tire patches I bought. They are better quality than what Wally World and the chain auto parts stores sell and were third the price. Yea they are Chinese, but so are the name brand ones uptown. Some middle man is just making more profit off those uptown. Try and find anything made in USA anymore like this.....

Anyway really tired of messing. Usually I pick up a kids bike with good tires right size from Salvation Army when they have their half price on everything setting outside. Didnt the last two or three years, go to town only once a month and didnt happen to be in town when they had their sale. Wally World wants high dollar for Chinese crap. More for just one new paper thin tube than I can buy whole bike at Salvation Army. You know their markup on what they bought it for is some crazy amount. I'd be surprised if Wally World paid over 50cents for the tube given the quality.

Out of curiosity does anybody know of a heavy duty "thorn proof" tube for reasonable price maybe online? And please dont tell me the benefits of slime and other such garbage. I've never had any good results with such and especially not in tube tires. If it works for you great, but its never worked for me and I am not wasting my money.

[Beeman]

I read an article somewhere about a guy filling his mower tires with Great Stuff expanding foam.

[mistletoad]

We bought solid inners for the boy's bikes when they were younger and never worried about flats again.

http://www.amazon.com/Bell-No-Mor-Fl.../dp/B001UGAJYA

[watcher]

You may not like wally world but they sell some stuff, Tire Slime?, you put in a tube which will prevent this. I've used it in bike tires and have it in the front tires of my tractor.

[Windy in Kansas]

I can't help you with finding tubes as you request. I just wanted to suggest that you might try to add bicycle tire liners once you do find some to help prevent further flats.

Article on them here: http://mywheelsandmore.com/bicycleWh...eTireLiner.htm

[HermitJohn]

The solid inners seem pretty expensive.

Bicycle tire liners? Any experience with them? Little gorilla glue and some strips cut from old truck tube might be another option.

Expensive solutions means I could just buy solid rubber tire/wheel combo made for garden carts.

[uncle Will in In.]

Take the tube out and put a piece of the black plastic water line tubeing in the tires. It wouldn't need air that way.

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by HermitJohn

The solid inners seem pretty expensive.

Bicycle tire liners? Any experience with them?

Yes, I use them in both of my bicycles to keep puncture vine flats at bay.

The liners has a hard side to prevent tube punctures and a softer side which the tube is against. The ends of the liners are tapered so that there isn't a hump/bump/etc. where the overlap is. Not sure if that would be a problem leading to tube scuffs with homemade or not.

Uncle Will might have a great solution.

[HermitJohn]

Where do you buy liners?

Plastic pipe in tire might work IF you could get it in tire, then tire back on rim. Pipe would have to be a tight fit to be useful. I have my doubts about doing that. Plus its not going to seat the bead and you will get various flotsam and jetsam in tire too.

Yea good chance of scuffing tube with homemade liner, those tubes are incredibly thin and fragile. They will go flat with slightest irritation. Maybe I should just buy new tube and glue patches all around outside of it.... Those patches are actually designed for inside of tubeless tires so quite tough.