Understanding the Motorcycle Tube - T.J. Tennent
Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast
Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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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