Was riding around the creek trying to explore different off-road routes for my commute to work. Lots of fun going behind people’s houses and a bit of hike a bike when there was no trail. As soon as I got back on the trail, I felt something in the rear, like I lost a bit of air but not much. Turns out it was a 5cm rusty nail that stabbed into my tyre.
Removed it and that Orange Seal immediately worked its magic.
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Once I had a tubelessed Pari Moto blow out as I was walking bike outside of house. That was on hookless Nox rim so that didn’t help things.
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Had parimotos to stans podium rims, which usually are a bit tighter. Turp bought them. Maybe that’s why he wouldn’t ever care to change them without chucking the wheels.
Oh I changed them you son of a fucking bitch.
I actually really like those wheels thank you for the hookup.
One of the Gravel King models is literally the old Pari-Moto made nicer
At least a couple of the models are similarly tissue-paper supple, but there’s a spectrum of added flat protection, and some of them are worse than Gatorskins. Run far away from anything they sell with knob-like tread on it.
Run far away from that
Any Continental MTB tire that isn’t “ProTection” will be porous as all hell
As for the specific tire, any “extra fast rolling” model from a Big Tire Sponsor that you never ever see used in a World Cup XC race is absolutely guaranteed to be a turd that’s slow in practice
current-generation Compass works better tubeless than Continental from a few years ago, especially on Stan’s rims
non-tubeless-specific euroweenie vintage Continental doesn’t work at all
So is there a particular GK 650b tire you would recommend? I’ve fondled the 700c varieties and they all seem basically fine, but we don’t stock enough 650b for me to form any sort of opinion, and I ain’t rich enough to experiment.
Run a GK Slick in the back (520 grams) and GK SK in the front (540 grams)? Going to do this over summer
even I, in all my majesty, cannot fucking keep track of which is which
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To make this clusterfuck even more indecipherable, they now also have a 650b x 48 pari moto? And all the pari motos are now tubeless, but the 48 pari moto is 500g, or only 20g lighter than the 48 gravelking, which has the anti flat casing that the pari moto apparently lacks, while the 42 pari moto is 30g less than the 42 gravelking… Somethingsfucky.gif
Huh.
I also haven’t actually seen any tubeless 42 pari motos available for purchase anywhere. Last I checked it all seems to be old stock of the non-tubeless ones.
I did notice the bead seemed much better on the switchback hills a friend recently gave me because he was afraid he would perish if he continued to ride them. Now what to do about the very low mileage 2 year old ones in my closet…
Sell on 650b list serve 
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Put them up for sale. If they’re cheap enough I might want them as spares for my gravel®©™ bike :-)
I’d ride them with a tube with no hesitation. I found them to be a little scary set up tubeless though. Sidewall felt like it had too much give. How about you PM me with how much you want to pay @Orc !!
Which one? I’m in the market for this.
Edit: should’ve read the thread before commenting.
anyone fondle the green GKs?
That blue looks interesting.