Who's running tubeless?

I change the Yeti twice a year, for summer and winter. No real bother. I've had one tyre blow off the rim, but that was because the pressure was too low - you could feel the tyre rolling around but i was too lazy to blow it up. Inflated again no problems using a blackburn airstik
 
True, there can be other problems. I suffered a cut side wall which was too large for the sealant to repair, I just popped an inner tube in there. It doesn't take any longer than fixing a regular puncture and when I got home I patched the tyre up and restored it to tubeless again.

If you do put an inner tube in there make sure you remove any thorns etc from your tyre that may cause your tube grief... :(
 
Yeah, remember that you should carry a spare tube and pump when you go out tubeless, so you can get home if you puncture, although it hasn't happened to me yet!
 
I've had various sucess on proper tubeless setup.
Overall I have found the cost/hassle increase issue to outweigh the benefits. So I have a compromise,
Buy the lightest tubes you can and squrit some Stans inside the tube (screw on 1/4"id plastic tube and poke the nose of the bottle into that)
remember to use oodles of talc between tyre/tube

However, I'm totally sold on Mavic tubeless rims, The tyre seal channel really locates the tyre onto the rim. Awesome!
 
Back
Top