Carry a spare...yes or no?

[Mike S]

I carry one on my 60, and one on the trailer. Both use the same wheels and tires. I also have a spare spare that I can carry if needed.

Ever drive 100+ miles on a flat?

M

 

[wngrog]

I have one on the trailer. Needed one last year when I busted the rim.

Full size tubes are a fantasy. There is no way you will find a 40" tube that has a valve stem that will remotely work in an auto rim. You can forget that. I tried and 200$ later I had a bunch of river runners, but no workable solution.

If I wheeled one way over 4 hours from the trailhead, I would find a way to bring a spare.

 

[Mark W]

I have tubes in my 52s which have an automotive type stem? They will also fit the smaller 20 inch tires (1400R20 and 1300R20). I have not had reason to try, but I bet you could run these in a 42 or 44 inch tire on a 15 inch rim if you had too. You'd need to straighten the extended stem a little, but it seems to me that you could do this fairly easily. I'm pretty sure that I still have a tube around here that I bought when I was running the 42s which has a regular short/straight stem..

Mark...

 

[EarthX]

I think you're crazy if you dont carry a spare........its no big deal to store one if you try....

 

[HZJ60 Guy]

No sir. 38.5 SX's. You cant even piss them off, let alone hurt them.

They're bullet proof.

Besides, I carry two inner tubes just in case.



TB

 

[Niner]

The only times I've needed a spare is when I don't have one along. Most of the time I don't have them is in the winter (for the Weight)

 

[dieseldog]

All my vehicles have spares on-board. I even purchase six wheels and tires for each so that when it comes time to rotate, I do so axle by axle and then the spares see road too. I have never wheeled without a spare; however, I do not run anything larger than a 33". Oh well, I guess that means I'm just not hardcore. LOL.

 

[Rock Taxi]

Don't own one.

Ed

 

[Mace]

I got one for a six pack and a $27 wheel.

And it will sit on the trailer until I manage to pop a tire.

 

[KOWBOY]

I got one for a six pack and a $27 wheel.

And it will sit on the trailer until I manage to pop a tire.

Sir, a spare tire's the least of your worries.

 

[Mace]

Sir, a spare tire's the least of your worries.

I know..

 

[lowtideride]

i've got one flat and had to go buy a new tire becauseof it...It was just one of those things that sat at the back of my brain when i was on the trail...now i want a long sided axle and a spare third...

 

[Jimbro]

I have seen several tire problems on the trail, but I believe Nolan's was the most spectacular of all.

In most cases, probably 90 %, the spare was on the trailer.......if the tire wasn't fixable, one or two guys would start work on the rig while someone went to get the spare.........wheelin within a couple of miles of the trailer and you could get the spare and be back by the time the others caught their breath.

In places like Las Cruces, there might be 3 to 5 of us running the same size wheel and tire................the last trip out I carried the spare because it might take two to three hours round trip to retrieve one off the trailer.

Jimbro

 

[gunmetalcruz]

Mace that was a case of bud cans not a six pack. The fish was how big?

 

[Uncle Ben]

If I have the radials on then the carrier and spare are on the back. SX's need no spare. (Ran 4 sets of them now and except for an allen wrench set in Moab nothing has ever even penitrated them)

 

[LC_Hamma]

SX's Are The Sheeeit!

If I have the radials on then the carrier and spare are on the back. SX's need no spare. (Ran 4 sets of them now and except for an allen wrench set in Moab nothing has ever even penitrated them)

I can't praise my SX's enough! One time I ran over a trap, planted by a hunter, & it wasn't even hunting season on public land. It was a 2x with 16d nails! I heard something clunking in my wheelwell. I pulled it out & saw that the nails didn't even penetrate the lugs. Still hasn't leaked & the Tellico roots & rocks haven't given me any problems either.

 

[Mark W]

A chunk of wood with nails in it is a trap??? Your kidding, right?


Mark...

 

[wngrog]

A chunk of wood with nails in it is a trap??? Your kidding, right?


Mark...

He is in Georgia Mark.

 

[Uncle Ben]

I can't praise my SX's enough! One time I ran over a trap, planted by a hunter, & it wasn't even hunting season on public land. It was a 2x with 16d nails! I heard something clunking in my wheelwell. I pulled it out & saw that the nails didn't even penetrate the lugs. Still hasn't leaked & the Tellico roots & rocks haven't given me any problems either.

I suspect the "hunter" was green and the tire WAS the target. RRRRRRRRRRR

 

[Mace]

Mace that was a case of bud cans not a six pack. The fish was how big?

lol

It was bud. A case = a sixer of any other beer

BTW, the tire has held air for the last month and a half.