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Submitted by
Lance
a Weekend Warrior
from Fullerton, CA USA
Date Reviewed: August 21, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | The loop | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Purchased At: | jax bicycles | | Strengths: | No more pinch flats or any type of flats. | | Weaknesses: | HEAVY as a mother *ucker, which are very heavy. | | Similar Products Used: | Giant tubes, WTB tubes, everything but DH tubes. | | Bike Setup: | 2001 Kona Roast | | Bottom Line: | Heres the deal. The only weakness to these tubes is they are Heavy. Yes they are.
Now the upsides. I was replacing tubes on my Sun Ditchwitch rims which are really wide but are perfect for freeriding and urban assault. Problem is I was replacing like 5 tubes a month or more since the tires are so difficult to put on the rims they would go flat right away or after about 5 minutes on the trail. So i got these. Haven't had a flat in a month and a half and I don't even take a spare tube with me anymore. I do trials, cross country, urban assault and freeriding and these hold up to them all. Big deal if they weigh a little more. Unless you are cross country go get some of these. I'd rather pay $8 for something a little heavier. I recommend em if you do hard hits. Get some and forget about em'
4 chillis because they weigh a ton. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
PiroChu
a Cross Country Rider
from Bay Area (California, USA)
Date Reviewed: July 17, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Bottom Line: | I actually never had flat on those in 2 yrs (except when I ran over a piece of glass.
But, they're heavy. Somebody at the bottom of this post said, "they are heavy at 285 grams each." Whoa! That's a lot... I'm going switch to something that's 100g/each, even though these never gave me flat-problems, per se.
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Submitted by
Stinky B
a Cross Country Rider
from Petaluma
Date Reviewed: July 1, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | any pointed down | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Strong rubber odor, attractive dusty black color, holds air as long as the tube isn't actually in the tire | | Weaknesses: | Heavy.
One flatted on istallation (no thorns in tire, rim strips intact, nothing sharp inside rim, very careful with tire levers, flatted on inside surface anyway)
Heavy.
Patches don't like to stick to these buggers
HEAVY.
Thick on outer side only, inner side weak as hell
HEAVY, HEAVY, HEAVY.
UNBELIEVEABLY HEAVY | | Similar Products Used: | Several hundred tubes of various brands | | Bike Setup: | STP 200, AD-12 rear, Mutanoraptors | | Bottom Line: | I am not, nor have I ever been a weight freak, just gimme something that works - however, these things are RIDICULOUS. Two of these stupid things adds like a pound and a half to your bike. I think I'd rather carry the weight in a better shock, not in my tubes...
I got one of these buggers on without incident, even though the uneven thickness and massive rigidity of these tubes made it more of a PITA than usual. The second tube decided to blow on inflation, when I looked for reasons WHY I found none. It blew on the rim side (thin side of tube), BIG hole and I'm still wondering WHY. Rim strips are beautiful, no ganks in the rim, no thorns in the tire, WHY DO THESE TUBES SUCK SO BADLY?
Oh, then I tried to patch the hole... patches from one generic kit simply would not stick to this suck-ass tube, on the third try a patch from a tip-top kit actually stuck.
Changing a tube should NOT involve an hour of patch BS and unexplained blown tubes. SOmething claiming to be thick and super duty should not blow for no reason when installing. Please explain to me why these have got to weigh 500 pounds. Please explain how a tube that is not uniformly thick is going to help with pinch flats.
I will never buy a Wrench Force tube again. I hate them. They suck.
The kicker - I haven't even ridden the bike since putting them on last night; they simply suck so badly that I had to run out and try to prevent my fellow man from going down this road... stick with Slime, you could pur five bottles of it into your tubes and they still wouldn't weigh as much as these anchors, and Slime actually might prevent you from getting a flat... these pieces of crap sure won't.
Don't forget to use the bonus multiplier of ZERO when looking at my 1-flaming dog crap ratings... | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Will
a Cross Country Rider
from Denver, CO
Date Reviewed: April 6, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$7.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Thick, if you don't mind the weight. I imagine they work well for thorn punctures (like they claim) | | Weaknesses: | My god these things weigh a TON. | | Similar Products Used: | Most of the specialized tubes. | | Bike Setup: | Mavic 517, Michelin Wildgrippers | | Bottom Line: | Between 2 of them its over 1 pound...I have never seen a tube this heavy before. Michelin tires are pretty weak and I got 2 flats within 15 minutes of the first ride, so I went to the LBS and said "give me something thick" and this is what I got....be carefull what you ask for I suppose.
Haven't popped one yet, but Im dumping them...they are just so ridiculously heavy. They also make the tire feel oddly stiff for the pressure.
And they are only thick on the outside, so these won't help with pinch flats. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Wilson Low
a Cross Country Rider
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: October 19, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Tanjong Rhu Marina East | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Purchased At: | Treknology3 | | Strengths: | You gotta be kidding me. However, they ar fantastic if you cut them into strips and use as chainstay protectors. | | Weaknesses: | A flat magnet. Holes mysteriously appear on the inner side of the tube, facing the rim. Not even pinching or punctures from monster jumps or nails. These things just died underneath my Schwinn on flat level asphalt. Patches do not stick to this tube!! Cleaned and licked and cleaned the spot where the hole was, but to no avail. | | Similar Products Used: | WTB, Cheng Shin. | | Bike Setup: | '97 Schwinn Mesa GS SID SL, assorted cheapo parts. | | Bottom Line: | A thoroughly pitifully hopeless excuse for a bicycle inner tube. I put them on for a tag team adventure race (bike route only about 30 km)... and thank goodness they did not cock up during the race otherwise the girls would have to hike-a-bike the rest of the race. I do not ride heavily, but even then the stupidity of these tubes left me fuming. I had to prematurely end a bike survey of an expedition route about 25 km from home all because of one of these tubes. Slow leaking, simply, impossible to fix once a hole comes along, which is sooner rather than later. I now use their pathetic carcasses as chainstay protectors.
Do not, DO NOT buy Wrenchforce tubes.
Does not deserve a flaming chili actually. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Neeek
a Weekend Warrior
from Sydney, Australia
Date Reviewed: June 14, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Mt Stromlo area | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | 4mm thickness is good for puncture protection - you try and pinch flat these ones! | | Weaknesses: | How heavy?!?
Bad valve/tube connection | | Similar Products Used: | Pretty much everything... | | Bike Setup: | Cove Stiffee FR set up for mucking about with lots of nice parts... | | Bottom Line: | Any tube is going to die sooner of later, but these thorn-proof ones ought to have been better. In the end, it wasn't a pinch flat or indeed a thorn that ended this tubes life, but a snapped off presta valve!
Never had that happen EVER before. Disappointing, but will keep me away from these heavy tubes anyway, which are over-rated... | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott Duckworth
a Cross Country Rider
from Clemson, SC
Date Reviewed: October 13, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$4.00 | | Strengths: | looks like a tube; smells like a tube; comes with a rubber band around it to add to the rubber band collection; get's pinch flats/punctures about as easily as any other tube | | Weaknesses: | hmmm, let's see...I've had 2 tubes (from 2 different shops) with holes in them out of the package; holes always mysteriously appear around the valve; there always seems to be a slow leak (no thorns); holes randomly appear overnight (really!) on the side that is facing the rim (yes, I'm using rim tape and it's covering every sharp point in sight) | | Similar Products Used: | ??? - a tube is a tube, unless it's this one or some type of ultralite or DH tube. I've even had better results with the specialized ultralites than this tube. | | Bottom Line: | If your bike shop carries these tubes and only these tubes, go somewhere else for tubes. These tubes suck | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jochen
a Cross Country Rider
from vienna
Date Reviewed: September 10, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | cheap (if you just consider the tube and neglect the rim you have to buy 'cause the tube flats on some downhill)
light | | Weaknesses: | FLAT FLAT FLAT | | Similar Products Used: | Schwalbe, Cheng shin, all better, Conti latex (great) | | Bottom Line: | flatted at third ride on a mediocre downhill, the rim was gone and that sh.... cheap tube did cost me a lot of money in the end... :-(
(i wouldn´t spend a single chili on this crap) | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Someone
a Weekend Warrior
from the world
Date Reviewed: November 15, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
Light | | Weaknesses: |
Flats | | Similar Products Used: |
wrench force thorn resistens | | Bike Setup: |
trek 810 | | Bottom Line: | This tube gets you flats fast, no good unless you like patching tubes. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kent
a Weekend Warrior
from Roseburg
Date Reviewed: September 19, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
Light | | Weaknesses: |
Flats!! | | Similar Products Used: |
Specialized - whatever it is that comes on the RH. | | Bike Setup: |
Specialized RH - Rock shock seat post, XT Brakes. | | Bottom Line: | Two flats in two days. One flat before I could even get back on the bike. It's a good thing that Bikeworld has a four for the price of three sale. I needed the extras! I will replace these with something better, if I want to ride anytime soon. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Fred
a Weekend Warrior
from massachusettts
Date Reviewed: September 6, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
bh | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
OK Price, decent reliablity | | Weaknesses: |
could be cheaper | | Similar Products Used: |
cheezy k-mart tubes | | Bike Setup: |
stock | | Bottom Line: | a pretty good tube, but my next tubes will be the poppless kind, we'll see how they work out... | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David Eastwood
a Weekend Warrior
from Prince rupert bc
Date Reviewed: July 1, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
works great is strong. | | Weaknesses: |
A bit to heavy | | Similar Products Used: |
None | | Bike Setup: |
Norco sasquatch indy c stx | | Bottom Line: | I used this the first time the other day when i went up the local mountain which is 2400 feet. they are heavy at 285 grams each. | | Overall Rating: |
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