Maxxis FlyWeight Tube Reviews
Review score: 8.6/10 – Updated July, 2024
Latest Price: £10.99 – Save 8% (RRP: £11.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Maxxis FlyWeight Tube worthy of a review score of 8.6 out of 10.
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Maxxis FlyWeight Tube features
Maxxis FlyWeight Tube
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Spec 1
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Colour: Black Other Tubes found with this Spec: 6387 |
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Spec 2
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Wheel Size: 27.5″ (650b) Other Tubes found with this Spec: 188 |
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Spec 3
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Width: 1.9″ Other Tubes found with this Spec: 2 |
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Feature 1
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Material: Butyl Other Tubes found with this feature: 12 |
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Feature 2
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Wall Thickness: 0.45mm Other Tubes found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 3
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Weight: 95g Other Tubes found with this feature: 8 |
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Price
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£10.99 |
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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 Maxxis FlyWeight Tube.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Maxxis FlyWeight Tube 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 Maxxis 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 Maxxis FlyWeight Tube
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Maxxis FlyWeight Tube.
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 Maxxis FlyWeight Tube was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £10.99 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.6 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 £10.99.
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 14 cost more than Maxxis FlyWeight Tube and 91 were cheaper.
Cost of Maxxis products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 81 products from Maxxis, of which 10 were in the Tubes category.
For now though we’re looking at Maxxis branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £39.28 making this product below average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Maxxis product we found was £3.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £74.99.
Of the 81 from Maxxis, 72 were more expensive than Maxxis FlyWeight Tube and 8 were cheaper.
How much are Maxxis Tubes?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Maxxis products that are listed in the Tubes category.
The average price of the 10 products that match this search was £8.24, with the cheapest coming in at £3.99 and highest price was £11.44. With the average being £8.24, Maxxis FlyWeight Tube comes in above average.
1 products that meet this search were more expensive than Maxxis FlyWeight Tube and 8 were cheaper.
Maxxis FlyWeight Tube 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 Maxxis FlyWeight Tube reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Maxxis FlyWeight Tube, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.9 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 Maxxis FlyWeight Tube or another similar product, like Nukeproof Horizon Advanced Rim Defence reviews or Joe’s No Flats Valve Core Removal Tool 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 Maxxis, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Maxxis FlyWeight Tube
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Maxxis FlyWeight Tube reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Maxxis FlyWeight Tube. 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 8.6/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010859521
- Product ID 2: 645351UK
- Brand: Maxxis
- Model number: IB75120000
- RRP: £11.99
- EAN: 4717784027449
- Description: Maxxis FlyWeight TubeWith a reinforced, optimised sidewall of 0.45mm, the FlyWeight inner tubes are the lightest butyl tubes on the market. A lighter tube ensures that acceleration is increased since rotational weight is decreased significantly.Features: Material: Butyl Wall Thickness: 0.45mm Weight: 95gBuy Maxxis Wheels & Tyres from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Wheels & Tyres > Tubes
- Savings percentage from RRP: 8%
- Size: 27.5″ (650b)
- Unisex
- 1
- 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 Maxxis FlyWeight Tube included,
Joe’s No Flats Self Sealing Tube reviews, Joe’s No Flats Self Sealing MTB Tube reviews, or we really liked the look of WTB Presta Inner Road Tube reviews as another alternative.