I'll second that. I drive my B with wires all I can, including long
trips. The trick is to use quality tubes.
Cheers,
CR
David Breneman wrote:
> james SEZ -
>
>>They are intended for folks that drive their cars a lot. A tubed tire will
>>build up more heat (and retain it) then a tubeless one. It also allows you
>>to remove one, often problematic, part from the whole car equation. As with
>>most things people are very slow to accept change in something that has gone
>>unchanged for long periods of time, but I personally think that they are it.
>
>
> I've never had any problems with inner tubes myself, and have been
> saved 3 times by them (twice in my old MGB and once in my BMW
> 1800-02/ti) when I suffered catastrophic tread breakdowns which
> would have been blowouts in a tubeless tire, but with the tube I was
> able to limp to a safe stop on the shoulder. In the BMW, I was able to
> drive almost a half mile off a bridge with no shoulders and onto a side
> road.
>
> I just thought somebody ought to stick up for the lowly inner tube.
> I've always considered tube a positive on the safety front.
>
> :-)
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