Sprayed some soap on my rear tire to find out where it was leaking air, looks like everywhere
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donāt think of it as losing a tire, think of it as gaining a colander
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The time for on-bike tire pressure monitoring and inflation is now.
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Can my dynamo power an on board compressor?
Or, which tool battery system is best for the onboard compressor and which ebike lights should it be paired with?
I donāt want TPMS alarms going off on my bike, it happens more than Iād like on my car
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holy crap, and it isnāt even a reen!
Probably not an issue until Reens end up as OE tubeless tires on some normie bikes and the feds decide to step in.
Blew my mind to see it! Had to laugh. Tossed more sealant in and let it sit on one side, weāll see if orange seal can do a lot of magic. I
An entire sidewall made of the hot patch. solid.
those ikons are for real leaky as fuck. I had a series of debilitatingly annoying slow failures in one that resulted in a wasted 16oz of sealant before I finally just trashed the damn thing. they also felt subjectively like they rolled way slower than Our Burt Of Thunder. do not recommend
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I too have been very underwhelmed by Ikons, seem to be sluggish for some reason. I tossed them on my Riv for an upcoming gravel event Iām helping with after pulling them from my mtb a few years ago. After that my road tires will be returning to duty.
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More fun to do a compressor hub filling a pressure vessel that can be used to power a generator.
Also @Bootus, seems like TPMS and on-the-fly inflation for bikes is already a thing;
OMG, but also, nice
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Weird, Iāve been v. happy with my skinwall Rekons, which I wouldnāt have thought to be much different in construction.
To be fair, I went out of my way to strip the old tubeless goo from this tire. Very plausible I messed something up there, and this is a second install after many months of post-install storage. My initial install was flawless, as has been with so many maxxis tires.
I ran those tires back in the day. Not great on loose-over-hard, but not terrible.
Conti is making an āall seasonā GP5k TR thatās grippier, supposed to be more durable, and comes in a 35mm width now: New Continental GP5000 AS TR is the grippiest and longest-lasting tyre in widening tubeless range - BikeRadar
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I just flatted a new GP5Ktr in 32mm today, with less than 100 miles. I wish Iād been made aware of these new tires sooner!
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