I thought I learned my lesson about a year ago with MOOP one.I thought it was a fluke. Turns out it happened to my trike as well.
A word of advise. Do NOT use those solid rubber tubes on a wheel attached to your engine. In my experience a solid tube on a non motorized wheel (Front wheel on bikes that drive from the back) seems to do well.
I'll let the pictures do the talking here. Look at what happened to the spoke protector. It just wrapped up. Amazingly I rode about 5 miles home this way. Then after installing a slime tube on a new tire it rode so much better with far less rolling resistance.
Solid Tubes are NOT for these bikes,yo. It's good that you won't get a flat but if it does this and you are far from home you can ride home but you'll be throwing the dice on your rims.
A word of advise. Do NOT use those solid rubber tubes on a wheel attached to your engine. In my experience a solid tube on a non motorized wheel (Front wheel on bikes that drive from the back) seems to do well.
I'll let the pictures do the talking here. Look at what happened to the spoke protector. It just wrapped up. Amazingly I rode about 5 miles home this way. Then after installing a slime tube on a new tire it rode so much better with far less rolling resistance.
Solid Tubes are NOT for these bikes,yo. It's good that you won't get a flat but if it does this and you are far from home you can ride home but you'll be throwing the dice on your rims.
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