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Hutchinson
Green Anti-Snake Bite
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Submitted by
Hobby William
a
from SLC
Date Reviewed: September 13, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Technical and narrow | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$9.00 | | Purchased At: | Pricepoint | | Strengths: | Supple downhill ride. Snakebite resistant. Natural rubber | | Weaknesses: | Valve stem breaks off tube after limited use. Heavy | | Similar Products Used: | Standard prest tubes | | Bike Setup: | Trek 920, Judy XC, Richey Race Stem, Truvanti Team crank, XT front derailer, LX Rear derailer, Bontrager Clydesdale rims, XT BB, Easton carbon handlebar, Sefas grips, Shimano 959 pedals | | Bottom Line: | I bought the tires to help out with my snake bites on the rear rim. They seemed to perform to their claim to resistance. And the ride did have a better feel on hardpack smooth trails. Though after lest than 50 miles use the valve base separated from the tube body. The valve stem and the tire are different types of rubber and the weld between the two was insufficient. I returned the tube to Pricepoint and they sent a replacement free of charge but the latter tube had the exact same performance as the former. Their cost is above that of disposable tubes, so I won't more. I owned the tubes two years ago; maybe Hutchinson has adddress the design flaw. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
marco alberio
a Weekend Warrior
from Italy
Date Reviewed: July 29, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | bike store | | Strengths: | . strength | | Weaknesses: | . weight | | Bike Setup: | custom Trek VRX 300 | | Bottom Line: | these tubes are very strength, only one flat but due a very big pin. But the better part is that the tube loss air slowly, I can run for 30 Kilometers and I discover the pin 3 days later, in the same tour my friend's bike flat 3 times !!! I mounted 6 of them on 3 different bikes and in one case only I found little leaks from the valve. I screwed the valve better and the problem disappears. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Clement
a Cross Country Rider
from Ottawa
Date Reviewed: June 26, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Strengths: | none | | Weaknesses: | doesn't keep air for long ...
heavy ; IS NOT ANTI SNAKE BITE ! | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Big Sur | | Bottom Line: | I thought buying these tubes would help me steer away from snakebites but alas ... not only do they leak air like crazy (I had to inflate twice on a 2 hour ride)but at the first little jump over an obstacle, they snakebited on me ... very disapointed : I'll go back to standard black rubber from now on | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
erik
a Cross Country Rider
from new yourk usa
Date Reviewed: July 17, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Purchased At: | ? | | Strengths: | no flats | | Weaknesses: | weight | | Similar Products Used: | ordinary tubes | | Bike Setup: | hutchinson python gold tires with panaracer flataway kevlar felt anti flat thingys | | Bottom Line: | I forgot what flat tires were like for the past year, I just powered over everything until i got new tires last week (python airlite)and tried the notubes.com tubeless system and got 3 flats within miles. Lightweight tube that I was carrying just in case flatted too, pinch flat. Then I put my old green tubes back in, new panaracer flataways too, they flatted too - I think it was from a bad rim strip or just karma. No problems with the stem. I'm ordering some new green tubes, after all they lasted a whole year of hard trail riding with rock piles etc.(and i felt the back rim against a rock a few times every ride) and they had 3 patches on them before this week including the only flat i remember which was in a crash which dented my new rim, my helmet, my elbow and my hip. Not having flats is worth carrying a couple hundred extra grams in your tires, I think. If you like low tire pressure and you're at all careless about what you ride over, this is worth it. I think the tubes get more credit for no pinch flats than the flataways, but the combination worked. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Nick
a
from Tempe, AZ
Date Reviewed: April 5, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Very very pinch-resistant.. I was running a tioga dh 2.3 rear tire on a tioga dh rim at 15 PSI just to see what happened, and after 2 hours of urban trials I hadn't pinched it yet. | | Weaknesses: | Heavier than some
| | Similar Products Used: | So many | | Bike Setup: | Trials | | Bottom Line: | I've used many, many different types of tubes, and these rank among my favorites. They just don't seem to pinch. I haven't experienced the valve stem problems that other people had so much trouble with. I'd highly recommend them for trials riders who like low PSI. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
B Coley
a Cross Country Rider
from Oakland, CA
Date Reviewed: September 21, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | Pricepoint | | Strengths: | none | | Weaknesses: | Within the first half mile (on road), on my way to the trail, the valve stem blew out. My tire went completely flat with 3 seconds. May have ruined the brand new Hutchinson Python Gold on the front (its sidewall is torn). | | Similar Products Used: | bike shop tires | | Bike Setup: | Yeti PROFRO/XTR | | Bottom Line: | Heed the advice below- the valve stem will more than likely tear on you. You will not be able to patch this mishap on the trail. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott Frazier
a Cross Country Rider
from Alpine, UT
Date Reviewed: September 9, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Little Creek Mesa, UT | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | from Hutchinson | | Strengths: | Prevents snakebite | | Weaknesses: | Heavy
Leaks a bit | | Similar Products Used: | Anti-snake bite tire, mainly specialized tubes | | Bike Setup: | Santa Cruz Superlight | | Bottom Line: | I like to run my tires at about 35#, and ride hard on rocky terrain, so snake bites on rear tire are a problem. Someday I'd like to try a tubeless tire, but until then this tube is the best anti-snake bite solution I've found. I use this tube together with the Continental Vertical Pro 2.3 tire which lets me run at low pressure without snake bite. I use a light weight tube on the front. My son uses an anti-snake bite tire. This also works well, but really restricts your tire choice. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ookie Padookie
a Racer
from Vermunt
Date Reviewed: January 16, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | yes | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$10.00 | | Purchased At: | Climb High | | Strengths: | does what it's supposed to (less pinch flats, etc.) | | Weaknesses: | for its intended purpose there are none | | Similar Products Used: | other tubes... I dunno!? | | Bike Setup: | Voodoo w/Velocity rims, huch. tires/panaracer crap firexc/conti
| | Bottom Line: | These are good tubes. There's no use whining about the extra weight, because the company doesn't try to push them as a SL racing thing or whatever. I've never had any of these whacked-out valve problems that others have mentioned, and I've only had one pinch flat with them (on a VERY rocky trail with lightweight conti semi-slicks) | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeff
a Weekend Warrior
from NJ
Date Reviewed: October 19, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | technical and downhill | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Price Paid: |
$10.00 | | Strengths: | The tube is on the heavy side but it feels bulletproof | | Weaknesses: | the valve is not securely attached to the tube | | Similar Products Used: | cheapo tubes | | Bike Setup: | 99 Jamis Dakar Team, Python air light tires. | | Bottom Line: | On the second downhill run at the local ski slope my front tire went flat. I had just installed them that morning and assumed that I had a pinch flat. After pulling the tire we saw that the valve had seperated fromthe tube! I'm back on the cheapo tires and have not had a problem.
Bottom line...sae your money! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kim Steingass
a Racer
from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date Reviewed: June 6, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | anything technical | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | No pinch flats | | Weaknesses: | Weight | | Similar Products Used: | everything | | Bike Setup: | python gold k/alligator gold k w/ green tubes | | Bottom Line: | sure they're heavy but what more do you want from a tire that never pinch flats. i have never had a valve stem come out. never. mabey everyone is just using the wrong tubes...... | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Savvas Anastassiou
a Racer
from Nicosia, Cyprus
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Voroklini | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | It is more resistant on pinches | | Weaknesses: | Everything else | | Similar Products Used: | Michelin, Hutchinson, chen sin (even this is better) all of them made of sinthetic rubber(butyl)
| | Bike Setup: | Michelin Wildgripper(rear),Hutchinson On The Rocks front | | Bottom Line: | This tube sucks. I put a pair of them the day before a race and both of them had to be changed before or during the race. The presta (italian)valve of the front one came off during the pre-race heat-up and it only had 40 psi in it.
The rear one exploded after 10 km after hitting a little rock that normally wouldn't bother me. It had inside 45 psi so it wasn't because it was too inflatted. When changing it I noticed that the weld(?) of the tyre had been torn.
The only reason they are getting the second and half chili is because of their pinch resistance: When I checked the tyres before installing a new tube I found goatheads stuck on the tyre that would flat out other tubes but this can be solved by installing tyre-seal liquid inside the tubes or by puting puncture stop rubbers between the tyre and the tube (this both solutions add a lot of weight (about 200 grms) but it's worth it especially if you are riding in conditions similar to Cyprus where you average 1-2 punctures for every ride. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
unknown
a Weekend Warrior
from Austin, TX, USA
Date Reviewed: April 9, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | none | | Weaknesses: | Valve stems pull out. | | Bike Setup: | K2 Flyin' Monkey | | Bottom Line: | About 7 miles into first ride, valve stem pulled out on rear. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
D.A. Dugan
a Weekend Warrior
from Austin, TX
Date Reviewed: April 9, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Emma Long | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | None | | Weaknesses: | Valve stem rips out. After that all other qaualities dissappear. | | Similar Products Used: | Panaracer greenlight, Air-B, Schwinn tubes, | | Bike Setup: | K-2 Disco Monkey | | Bottom Line: | On my first ride the front valve ripped off and I thought maybe I ran the pressure too low so I exchanged it for another. Next ride same thing on the rear. Took both of them back and went with plain old Schwinn tubes (6 rides since and no problems). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Marko Blau
a Weekend Warrior
from Zürich
Date Reviewed: January 12, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Uetliberg | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Maby a little bit more puncture proof then standard butyl tubes. | | Weaknesses: | The valve came off the tube.
350gramms are way to much.
| | Similar Products Used: | Schwalbe | | Bike Setup: | Hitec Trial
Hayes Brakes
Syntace bar, stem
XTR crank | | Bottom Line: | The biggest problem with these tubes was that the valve was not well attached to the green rubber of the tube and came off after some days! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lewis
a Downhiller
from Morpeth
Date Reviewed: November 27, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
Innerleithen | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Weaknesses: |
Horrible green colour | | Similar Products Used: |
Everything, Continental, Raleigh etc | | Bottom Line: | The only punctures with these tubes I've had are from big thorns, but you can ride through rocks and bricks no problem. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alex Crosbie
a Downhiller
from gloucester
Date Reviewed: April 18, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
6 months | | Bottom Line: | I just popped one of these tubes during a race and because of it it dented the rim and lost me the race,so as you can imagine i am a little pissed off with this tube!!!
Up until this the tube had been fine and had given about 5 months good service but anti pinch puncture is just not true.
and i wasn't runing it too soft between 35-40psi | | Overall Rating: |
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