Both Tubes Patched On A New EX

So I got a new EX 3 days ago and rode it for the first time yesterday. The bike is so much fun, but I ended up with a flat front tube. After pulling it apart, I see the tube has already been patched and that is where the leak was coming from. My stock tire is now trashed from having to ride the bike back to the car. I put a new tire on the bike and used tire balls vs the junk tube they had stock. I decided to add tire balls to the rear tire and guess what? It also had a patch on it, but it was not leaking. How do you have a patched tube on a brand new bike?

It's not a patch.
Carry on.

What is it then? Air was leaking from that spot.

mine had that "patch" too... my bike came from factory with the rear tube punctured and i punctured the front one on the third day, they are very bad... also my friend punctured his too on the second week

i mount the Michelin reinforced ones... 6 months on and no problem

i dont really now what is that "patch"

That ''Patch'' is where the rimlock is. That's where the original ones without started leaking at impacts.
They tried to fix that with overlapping it with that ''patch''. Did kinda work but now mostly the valve stems leak. It's crap and they really should stop trying to make it happen. Any normal thin tube will do better. Hell i've had better result using and overinflating MTB tyres in lack of something better...

Hello and welcome.
As you can read in this thread, there has been an evolution for those tubes and apparently that patch was supposed to make that spot stronger, like Erwin P has just written above.

Erwin P said:

That ''Patch'' is where the rimlock is. That's where the original ones without started leaking at impacts.
They tried to fix that with overlapping it with that ''patch''. Did kinda work but now mostly the valve stems leak. It's crap and they really should stop trying to make it happen. Any normal thin tube will do better. Hell i've had better result using and overinflating MTB tyres in lack of something better...

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That makes sense. I could tell that once I took it apart, that tube was junk. Tire balls for the win. Just sad it happened on my first ride and ruined my stock front tire. I planned to add tire balls anyway once I wore out the stock tire.

Chadman said:

That makes sense. I could tell that once I took it apart, that tube was junk. Tire balls for the win. Just sad it happened on my first ride and ruined my stock front tire. I planned to add tire balls anyway once I wore out the stock tire.

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Ya many of us got only 2 or 3 rides out of them if lucky. I switched to standard IRC heavy duty tubes and they have been great. I run the stock tires down to 6.5-8 psi. They don't like it but no flats even in the hard gnarl. I am switching over to IRC JX8s but I have ground the shit out of the Pirellis (stock on my MX1) and they take a beating.

I ride hard enduro/trails but if rode moto I would like the Pirellis they have great cornering and if you hit greasy mud with them the sidewalls have excellent bite. The stock tubes suck but the tires on the MX1 were better than I thought they would be.

Too bad you wreaked a tire. Looks like you got the Metzlers?