One of my pals thought he was too good for tubeless and went TPU for offroad things, got many many flats, and has gone back to tubeless.
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Am off tubeless for the 48s and smaller for mixed surface rides. Using the lighter butyl tubes. Gets me less air top offs in the 650 hoops - just once every 10 days or so suits my commuting. If its dark and raining I donāt want to faff with anything else when fixing a flat.
As with most things involving rubber gaskets (canning, plumbing, etc), you want to tighten things just enough rather than as much as possible. The rubber needs some space for elasticity to do its thing.
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Ppl who still stiff tubeless in favor of tubes in 2024 kill me.
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I put souped tubes in my SS cause I donāt want to maintain more than one tubeless setup
I think I have 3 wheels out of 20 tubeless. If I want another hobby Iāll get sea monkeys.
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What were we saying about it always being the rim tape?
Awoke the morning of our bike tour depart to a dead flat on the ultra supple Fastr React. Found a pinhole on the ID of the TPU tube and noticed the cloth rim tape had shifted in a few spots exposing the nipple holes slightly. All i had was washi tape, so laid some down, patched it and set off on a day of non stop rain and regular reinflation due to a/another slow leak.
Bought some electrical tape and this morning applied fresh wraps over the cloth and a fresh tube. Even more rain today, so fingers crossed Iām not also inflating or fixing flats in it again.
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You in Japan?
A long pre-event shake-down ride turned into an overnighter last weekend. The first real distance with the chilli compound raceking on the front on a borrowed son/stans Arch 650b wheel. My impressions were that the tire feels really fast, but it was quite wandery? So I was much more prone to weaving about. Could the tire have a more round profile than my other set-up? Fastrak on ztr crest.
He is
He needs to stock up on Growtac goodies! Its cheap over there.
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been riding those 26x2.2 racekings I mentioned further up for about two weeks now, agreed that they feel surprisingly fast
i have noticed some interesting steering sensations, but I also removed a solid 600g+ off the front of the bike by taking the wald basket off the front rack, so hard to say the reasonā¦ It does seem like the stiffer sidewalls let me get down to lower pressures without the bike feeling ābouncyā, but doesnāt prevent the tires from flopping in corners when the pressure gets too low.
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I am running about 35 psi I think but most of what I was riding on was rail trail or gravel with a fair bit of road too. Apparently they do a lighter variant with the chilli compound but its not as fast. Its a shame I cant get a 2.0 version for the back. The quasi moto seems reasonable on the back. It looks like it will wear quickly tho.
What tires should I buy?
30-32?
35ish?
Mostly road but also not really
Iāve been loving my terra speed
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28s. And you know just which tires Iām talking about
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GP5k str 32
Or GP5k Astr 35
Or honestlyā¦ Ultradynamico cava race 33 if you want the supple life.
I gave into the hype and decided to try some. The are real nice.
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New bike has a dry rotted specialized 26" on the rear and a Schwalbe Big Ben Plus on the front.
I need to replace the 26" and I guess should just get the Schwalbe Big Ben Plus (26x2.15")? I donāt know anything about 26" tires. Help!
Goals: donāt get a flat ever. I might do something silly like slime tubes. Alternately, tubeless and tire inserts as these Alex rims seem to be tubeless ready.
This one.
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This is not a very exciting answer but Big Apples and some Orange Seal in the tubes has done just fine for me on my cargo bike
I have wanted to try the Schwalbe Pick-Ups but they didnāt have them in stock last time I ordered from bike24
Iāll add that the big bummer about 26" tires is that there arenāt really any good tubeless options. There are the Surly ET tires but at 2.5" they limit your frame/fender options