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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

Understanding the Motorcycle Tube - T.J. Tennent

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Spoked wheels offer some advantages to the adventure rider, namely they are more flexible and forgiving in the rough stuff which is why most adventure bikes on the market have them. But that flexibility comes at a cost - and that’s what inside the...

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Spoked wheels offers some advantages to motorcycles that's why you see them run on bikes that ride the to car and all your off-road racing.

0:14.0

They are more flexible and forgiving in the rough stuff.

0:17.0

And it's why you see them on most adventure bikes.

0:20.0

But that flexibility comes at a cost, and that cost is having to run a tube inside the tire.

0:25.0

You've probably heard of the bikes that run the Dakhar, they run a moose in there, that's because that tube is problematic.

0:31.0

And although all the adventure, well I shouldn't say all the adventure bikes,

0:34.4

most adventure bikes out there have tubes. They're often shrouded in sort of a cloud of mystery when you go to buy them.

0:40.4

You can't seem to find valid or even much information, but today we have a tire expert on the show that's going to answer some tire tube questions, maybe dispel some myths, and hopefully you're going to learn some interesting facts.

0:53.9

My name is Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio.

0:56.2

Stay with us, we got a good bump for you. It's wind pressure that powers the motobreeze chain oiler, no electrical or vacuum

1:16.0

connections, it delivers the oil to a felt pad on your swing arm, no nozzles near your

1:19.8

sprockets, one ounce of oil gets a thousand miles or sixteen hundred kilometers get more miles from your chain and sprockets

1:25.3

Motobreeze.com

1:28.4

And Green Chili Adventure Gear offers American made heavy duty luggage systems for all types of motorcycles.

1:32.7

You can turn any dry bag into luggage using their strapping system.

1:35.9

And of course, Green Chilly Adventure gear is tested in extreme weather and terrain to

1:39.3

withstand the abuse that Adventure Riding gives it.

1:41.8

Tough, reliable gear, Green green chilly ADV.com.

1:45.0

Best Rest Product is the maker of the cycle pump, the best tire inflator for motorcyclists.

1:49.0

It'll inflate your flat tire in less than three minutes.

1:51.0

Made in the USA comes with a lifetime warranty.

1:53.7

They also distribute Google tech filters, cyclepump.com.

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