Accidentally ordering a notubes kit that was one size too big and trying it anyway rather than sending it back.
nice!
My newbie rider colleague was freaking out the other day. He got a flat, and while checking the wheel over convinced himself heād cracked the rim. It was the seam joint. Easy to forget how much there is to know when youāve been at it your whole life, you know?
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Specifically, used two layers of tape overlapping side to side to make sure the seams and some odd holes were covered. Put on a tire and tube and inflated to get the tape bedded down really well.
Then I added the ā29erā notubes strip. Had to soap it up and work the edges down into the bead groove with my fingernails which took quite a bit of effort.
Following all that I hit it with the inflator and it sealed right up with no sealant. Checked it with soapy water and no leaks other than through the sidewalls.
Deflated, added sealant, reinflated, shook it up well and it seemed to seal. Held 50psi overnight.
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Seriously. When I very first started guitar lessons on a rental guitar, I broke a string and for some reason thought I was in big trouble.
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Tubeless rims also keep your bead seated when your tire experiences a side load. Getting it to this point is one thing. Having it stay on when you hit that pothole with your bike a bit sideways is another story.
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just not worth dithering that hard these days when such good setups exist for such few monies
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Notubes strips effectively turn the rim into a tubeless rim by building up the bead shelf.
But sidewall of TB14 was really short.
This combined with the bulk of the notubes strip leads me to believe that it should be okay. There was very little wiggle room for the bead.
Nobody is dithering hard thus far. This is literally my first attempt. Next thing is to test if it takes side loads well
Also, few monies or no, do you have rims blessed with tarck bear on 'em? If you had rims blessed with tarck bear on 'em, wouldnāt you want to run them even if some dithering was required?
Grab the tire and push towards middle of rim. If it leaks air or sealant, donāt do it. And keep pressures higher than normal tubeless.
Done this already. Seems fine. Gonna ease into some corners and see how it goes. Iāve ridden these tires a bit so far, I like 40-50 PSI, which is a bit higher than normal, I think.
Rad. Good luck. Check the side load thing after a few rides and the casing relaxes a bit.
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sounds like a lot of dithering. Glad to hear you got this working! Iād have a lot less patience
Itās all fun and games until you burp off a Compass tire going down a hill and eat shit. Godspeed Heath.
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this. if anything, do just the rear for a while, and try to land bunnyhops kinda sidewards and stick with that for like a month before trying the front
This is timely. Iām about to try to tubeless a Hutchinson Barracuda on an old Sun Rhyno Lite. Itās a 26 inch rim built around a BMX hub, so thereās not much parts-buying I could do that makes any sense.
I was fine for a whileā¦ then āblamā back tire rolled/blew off. On the ground.
Hutchinson is one of the tubeless beads Iām most inclined to trust when it comes to shenanigans. They donāt stretch much at all.
yeah fuck that.
get a 3d printed rim badge and affix to a tubeless compatible rim with epoxy.
then install a tubeless tire.
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Oh, itās not one of their tubeless tires!