Cayenne
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Aha! I see your point | iHitting the nail on the head is the problem. That forced the nail through the rim tape into the spoke hole.
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Aha! I see your point | iHitting the nail on the head is the problem. That forced the nail through the rim tape into the spoke hole.
Should have spotted that .Thanks. This is a tubeless set up, so no innertube. I should have included that snippet in my post.
Thanks folks for your advice. The problem is fixed now.
To summarise the problem and the solution : I had just fitted a new tyre and successfully got it seated and inflated and with sealant inserted. It stayed that way for 15 minutes or so. Then suddenly I heard a pop and all the air came gushing out of that hole. After a long day fighting stubborn tyres, I gave up for the day!
Having slept on it I decided I had no other option but to remove the tyre that I had spent best part of the previous day mounting, and inspected the rim tape. This was the original Giant tape, and had survived a previous tyre replacement. I soon found that the tape had blown out at one of the spoke holes. Fortunately I had a new reel of Schwalbe Rim Tape so I replaced it - with a double layer! Remounted the tyre and voila!
At least I was able to learn from it so replacing the rear tyre was not quite so eventful. And I now have a sturdy pair of 28mm Conti GP5000 TLs (tubeless) with Orange sealant (With the previous tyres, the Stans just kept gushing ! )
It isn’t particularly claggy.I did consider the race sealant, but it looks a little too claggy for me.
That’s exactly what I have done, it’s no problem at all.I would not be able to use a syringe to insert the sealant
No it doesn’t.and it would probably block up the valve if inserted that way.
Mounting the final section of tyre with the sealant already in would be next too impossible for me. And extremely messy.
It isn’t particularly claggy.
The main difference in the Race sealant and the white bottle stuff, is that the Race sealant has twice the concentration of sealant particles in it, it’s not more claggy, but it does work much better, as long as the side walls don’t get cut.