Souplesse Casings and Bike Soup - The Tire Thread

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Does your tire say “TLC” on the sidewall?

There are a TON of 32mm Gravel Kings that were sold as tubeless that absolutely are NOT.

Different bead.

We were sold a bunch that were billed as tubeless by the distributor, by when we actually examined them realized were the same construction as the non-tubeless GKs in smaller width.

I’m not sure if this was ever actually resolved because we haven’t ordered anything smaller than 35mm since.

1124

Have you done a proper tubeless voodoo spreading dance?

1125

Anywhere from 3-6 months is pretty typical.

1126

I did a real fancy dance to get the sealant spread.

The sides of the tires have the TLC designation, and the tire bead shelf feels pretty pronounced. It could be a mislabeled bunch, but it doesn’t seem so?

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1127

Added more sealant, appears to be holding air again lol

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1128

I puncture flatted a tire once only to discover that all the sealant was gone, but it had been holding air just fine for who knows how long.

1129

I let my milk dry out a lot. A tire holds air without being wet IME but it will not seal. That’s when you get a small puncture and are sprinting home on sloppy 10psi wheels.

1130

Nicest 24" slick tires?

1131

Vee mk3, Maxxis Torch

1132

Tioga Powerblock?

1133

I don’t think they make the nice S-spec folding version in 24" unfortunately

1134

Maybe Schwalbe One?

1135

Do you want something skinny for a recumbent? Or something wide for for a sorta-mini-velo?

1136

Oh I’m thinking about Igor’s mini-velo.

I want to build one up as light as possible but yeah I want at least 32 mm tires. Preferably skinwall.

This could be as much fun as my Moulton but without the irritating bouncy bounce.

1137

That uses 20" wheels. Then yeah, Powerblock S-specs, or maybe Fastrs.

Or maybe go fergalicious and run the Alienation tubeless tires and Mischief rims in 28h

1138

Oh yes you are right

1139

I have a 20" Hookworm in the clyde fork on my xtracycle.
The tread is like 1cm thick and it’s wire bead and weighs about as much as the fork itself and will probably outlive us all.
Don’t be like me. Don’t buy a Hookworm.

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1140

but where else can you get tread that goes just about all the way to the bead

1141

It’s like a moto gp tire used for an extremely not moto gp situation

edit: no chicken strips on my cargo bike tires.

1142

this is an unusual development

https://www.competitivecyclist.com/vittoria-terreno-zero-g-plus-650b-tire-tubeless

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