Slime Tubeless Valve Reviews
Review score: 8.7/10 – Updated October, 2024
Latest Price: £14.99 (RRP: £14.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Slime Tubeless Valve worthy of a review score of 8.7 out of 10.
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Slime Tubeless Valve features
Slime Tubeless Valve
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Spec 1
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Colour: Silver, Green Other Tubes found with this Spec: 1 |
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Spec 2
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Option: 44mm Brass, 44mm Alloy Other Tubes found with this Spec: 1 |
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Feature 1
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Base: Tapered for universal fit Other Tubes found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 2
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Valve Type: Presta Other Tubes found with this feature: 20 |
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Feature 3
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Size: 44x10mm Other Tubes found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 4
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Includes:2 x valve stems Other Tubes found with this feature: 1 |
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Price
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£14.99 |
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Quality
Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Tubes. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Slime Tubeless Valve.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Slime Tubeless Valve is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.
Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Tubes. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.
There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Tubes. Brands like Slime are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.
Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Tubes category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.
Comparing Prices
Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Tubes.
It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.
Price of Slime Tubeless Valve
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Slime Tubeless Valve.
We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Slime Tubeless Valve was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £14.99 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.5 out of 10 for price.
Average price of Tubes
Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Tubes.
We found 109 in the Tubes category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £8.31, making it above average at £14.99.
It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Tubes. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £54.99, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £1.71.
With 109 products available we worked out that 7 cost more than Slime Tubeless Valve and 101 were cheaper.
Cost of Slime products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 6 products from Slime, of which 5 were in the Tubes category.
For now though we’re looking at Slime branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £10.28 making this product above average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Slime product we found was £7.73 and the highest price we could find from them was £14.99.
Of the 6 from Slime, 0 were more expensive than Slime Tubeless Valve and 5 were cheaper.
How much are Slime Tubes?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Slime products that are listed in the Tubes category.
The average price of the 5 products that match this search was £10.14, with the cheapest coming in at £7.73 and highest price was £14.99. With the average being £10.14, Slime Tubeless Valve comes in above average.
0 products that meet this search were more expensive than Slime Tubeless Valve and 4 were cheaper.
Slime Tubeless Valve Reviews
Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.
There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.
1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.
2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.
Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Slime Tubeless Valve reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Slime Tubeless Valve, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.3 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Tubes category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.1 out of 5.
Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Slime Tubeless Valve or another similar product, like Slime Inner Tube reviews or Hutchinson Butyl Long Valve Road Inner Tube reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Tubes.
Brand
As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Tubes. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Slime, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Slime Tubeless Valve
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Slime Tubeless Valve reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Slime Tubeless Valve. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 8.7/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010859545
- Product ID 2: 695247UK
- Brand: Slime
- Model number: SLMVALVE
- RRP: £14.99
- EAN: 716281508929
- Description: Slime Tubeless ValveMaking pressure adjustments to your tubeless ready setup as easy as can be, this pair of valve stems from Slime comes tapered for a universal fit. Presta head compatible for an efficient and secure engagement to your inflator, each 44mm long valve makes light work of getting you back up to speed. Features: Base: Tapered for universal fit Valve Type: Presta Size: 44x10mm Includes:2 x valve stemsBuy¬†Slime Wheels & Tyres from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Wheels & Tyres > Tubes
- Size: 44mm Brass
- Unisex
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- Adult
Other options for Tubes
As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Tubes. 109 in fact.
A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Slime Tubeless Valve included,
Cult BMX Rubbers reviews, Vittoria Inner Tube reviews, or we really liked the look of Impac AV Inner Tube reviews as another alternative.