A lot of people run tubes in winter tires to avoid snow packing in the bead causing a flat. You should be fine, just make sure you don't buy tubes that have been sitting on a shelf forever. Also, i've heard to try to use minimal lube putting the tires on, if the tire spins on the rim it'll tear the stem off.

I wouldn't worry about them causing an issue if driven on the street.

My navigator Opal ran some snows with tubes off her old ice racer last winter.  She commented on some high speed vibration that couldn't be balanced out, but nothing serious.

j_gardhouse wrote on 12/14/9 at 17:35:57:


Not exactly true... I crewed for ACP at SnoDrift one year where we mounted a bunch of Yokohama A034 winter tires.  Early on in the day we had icy conditions in the braking zones, and frozen gravel in the corners... So lock up your wheels in the braking zone, then hit the hard frozen gravel.  We tore up several tubes by spinning tires on the rims.  We weren't running excessively low pressures.

A few weeks later at PN... the guys used a heck of a lot less baby powder when mounting tires, and before seating the bead of the rim we would wipe them down with some brake cleaner on a rag.