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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I'm loving this thread. I do like a good collar nut discussion.
I'm in the pro camp, I always use them - and valve caps too. And I carry a mini-leatherman style thing with pliers. I've had to lend that to so many people, and used it myself. It's one of my favourite tools.
I'm in the pro camp, I always use them - and valve caps too. And I carry a mini-leatherman style thing with pliers. I've had to lend that to so many people, and used it myself. It's one of my favourite tools.
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
A bike without collar nuts and valve caps just looks plain wrong.
Another vote for leatherman or similar, the pliers can be really useful in getting out deeply embedded hawthorns.
Another vote for leatherman or similar, the pliers can be really useful in getting out deeply embedded hawthorns.
Definitely not a tubeless tyre, it's listed on Giant's website as a wired bead tyre to start with, the shop likely misunderstood your question, it's a tubeless ready wheelset but not a tubeless setup.
If you had a puncture and it was tubeless you'd know about it as there will be sealant sprayed everywhere from the puncture if it hasn't sealed, it it had sealed you'd still have sealant sprayed everywhere, but you wouldn't need a repair kit.
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
I have no reason to doubt the trusted opinions of regular CC contributors. The answer is easy to find; 10 seconds with a tyre lever will tell you!
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Me too! I'm in the other camp - if they were necessary how come some tubes come without them, with a smooth valve barrel? Just think of the weight you'd save if you got rid of them and didn't have to haul that 'mini-leatherman style thing with pliers' around all the time
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
I having been trying really, really hard not to post this in all caps from the start.
Please, I beg you @Tommohawk put us out of our (and your) misery!
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
But we already have the answer.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
You need to do both tyres, one might be tubeless and the other might be tubed.
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
But the question has changed. It was originally "are my tyres tubeless?" it moved on to "what use are valve collars?" then to "valve caps, yes or no?" then "should I tool up with a leatherman?" In a little while it'll be "should my bar end caps match?". We need answers to these! That's the internet for you!
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Tomorrow? You can wait until TOMORROW to fix a puncture?
Nooooo! Bikes must be put to bed in a "ready for action" state. It's in those dopey velominati rules. And if it's not, it should be
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Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Why is the collar nut important? It does precisely nothing.
Ditto valve caps, they preceed the collar nut on their trip to the bin when I buy a tube. Never had a problem without either.
On a bike with an inner tube it can stop an annoying rattle, on tubeless it stops the air leaking out.
