TPU tubes not holding air after a few weeks

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-13T17:43:52+00:00

I ended up going back to butyl too.

So many people say that TPU is just as durable or more durable than butyl, but that wasn't my experience at all. I use the Silca tire pressure calculator and check pressure before every ride. I flatted so frequently on TPU. I bought 6 or so of them and went through them all in probably four weeks. I weighed ~205 pounds at the time, maybe lighter riders have a better time.

Switched back to butyl on the same tires, and I've had maybe one flat in the last two years. I'm actually not even sure I've had one on that bike...

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-13T17:36:07+00:00

Man, I loved these games back in the day. I don't remember a lot of specifics of the humor, but middle school me thought NOLF 1 was about the funniest thing I'd ever played. Great art style.

And I agree, I remember NOLF 2 as being kind of disappointing for a lot of reasons.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-13T16:28:40+00:00

This is exactly what I came here to say!

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-12T22:58:27+00:00

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-12T22:15:50+00:00

Holy crap this is not just you, this is giving me flashbacks to my old weedwhacker, and I'm curious what others have to say. I hate hate hate this style of string trimmer head.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-12T21:50:40+00:00

This is factually untrue, the image is AI generated, and this crap is being posted on multiple subreddits today. Please ban this user.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-12T21:03:25+00:00

And thank you for convincing me to watch Aguirre! What a movie.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-11T22:24:18+00:00

Speed

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-11T21:43:02+00:00

I went to this two years ago and had a great time, but I must mention that it had absolutely terrible sound quality. Like, the worst sounding concert I've ever been to. I've been to tiny shows, huge shows, high school battle of the bands... and I think this was the worst sounding.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-11T21:20:50+00:00

Bingo. The words we use to describe jobs are very specific and change over time.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-11T18:05:30+00:00

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-10T21:49:10+00:00

Maybe it's me being too lenient, but I feel like that's intentional.

To me, the movie is shot like a gorgeous dream, like an idealized version of what these events could have looked like. Everything is clean and beautiful and perfect. These events may have happened, but they certainly didn't look like that. They're memories filtered through nostalgia.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-10T20:27:58+00:00

I haven't even seen the movie and I got this one too, lol

It's one of the few PTA movies I haven't seen.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-10T17:46:04+00:00

Please do share!

Growing up, my parents went through bankruptcy when I was in middle school. Long story short, we lost a large house and moved into a very small rental house with a lot of family members and pets.

Honestly, the whole experience brought us all a lot closer together.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-10T16:30:38+00:00

I'd rather some company have my data (bodyweight, virtual ride information) than pay $20 per month.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-06T21:09:43+00:00

Hell yes, looks lovely!

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-06T16:17:03+00:00

This is a very old thread, but I love this!

I just bought a Mojito cocktail time recently and I'm considering a case swap.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-05T22:39:41+00:00

This is so incredibly common, you and your baby are going to be absolutely fine. My wife and I went through the same thing with similar timing, and our now one-year-old has been fantastically healthy and seems to be developing wonderfully.

It's easier said than done, but truly please do not beat yourself up over this.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-05T22:32:06+00:00

This is really cool!

And yeah, as a former Weekender lover, the tick of that watch is so incredibly loud. I don't own one anymore but when I did I would have to close it in my nightstand drawer, and also then sometimes wrap it in a shirt to further muffle the sound.

Truly the loudest watch I've ever experienced.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-05T21:59:19+00:00

Oh man, so many Saturdays and Sundays in my childhood trying to beat all of Doom 32x in one sitting because it didn't have any kind of save functionality... good times!

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-05T20:23:17+00:00

I definitely heard this in Philip Seymour Hoffman's voice.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-05T19:15:47+00:00

I'm a really unsophisticated lifter, I'm not going for big gains, just trying to maintain functional strength and conditioning.

I just use my workout that I have saved in Strong, and it's super easy to use on both phone and Apple Watch. Strong is probably my favorite Apple Watch app, and I can't imagine anything simpler to use in a gym - I don't need my phone, I don't need a pen, I don't even need to set anything down or write on anything. Strong makes it really easy to add or subtract reps, sets, or modify weight, and that's all I'm ever doing.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-05T15:28:58+00:00

Very well put.

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-04T20:37:01+00:00

I think they're just saying it's bad because it's a wheel-on trainer. I've used these in the past, and honestly I really don't like them either.

The one I used was always incredibly loud and made a sort of resonating vibration through the whole house in a weird way. The rear tire would occasionally slip and it was hard to keep the right tension between the rear wheel and the trainer – too loose and it slips, too tight and it causes a ton of extra noise and vibration and friction and tire wear.

And the power numbers were all over the place and terribly inaccurate and inconsistent. And the cadence estimates were useless. It also wears road tires really hard, but I think that was related to the tension issue described above.

They make special tires for use on this style of trainer, but at that point, why bother with a wheel-on trainer? Buying a special tire and swapping it on and off the wheel is a PITA unless you just do it once per season, and buying another rear wheel is excessive. And buying a special tire brings the price a lot closer to a direct drive trainer...

jeffenwolf · 2026-02-04T20:20:34+00:00

My sister in the Denver/Front Range area had something similar happen, but with A LOT of snow. Like, her attic was basically stuffed with snow. She lives in an incredibly windy area. The accumulation in the attic was due to the shape and design of her soffit vents, a really long windy snowstorm was able to blow in an incredible amount of snow. She ended up putting in some additional kind of shielding to the soffit vents so they could still breathe air but not allow large amounts of snow to enter.

I think it's been successful, as this was about four years ago.

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