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Inflating tubeless tyres
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figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
The “convenience” of riding with almost no interruptions from punctures. When I do remove a tyre from any of my tubeless-setup MTBs I invariably find multiple thorns in it. Each thorn would have been a trailside tube replacement had I been on tubes, but in fact I didn’t even know the thorns were there. There are further witness marks from numerous other sealed punctures where the thorn or other object hasn’t stayed in the tyre.
And when I do get a puncture that the sealant can’t deal with, it’s a 5 minute job to plug it without having to remove the wheel from the bike - I’ve had to do this less than five times in around 8 years of riding tubeless off-road in thorny and flinty terrain. I also carry a tube and boot for the disastrous tyre slash that can’t be plugged. I’ve never had to use a tube.
Before I went tubeless I had experienced times where I’d had to repair or replace a tube three times in the same ride.
I’d rather have the faff of setting up tubeless in the warmth of my garage at a time of my choosing than deal with punctures on the trail.
The convenience of fixing punctures when out on the road far outweighs the minor inconvenience when in your shed. For me it’s easier than fitting tubes, no more pinched flats.
But like many things in life, make your choice and go with it.
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Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
To reiterate the two posts above: the inconvenience is all back at home, at my convenience, so to speak, rather than at the roadside. Plus, if you're reasonably rigorous about tubeless setup, it's not that much effort once you've learnt how to do it successfully. 99,000km on tubeless now, and I've only plugged a tyre on the road once, and I've not yet had a complete failure and needed to put a tube in.
Have you tried removing the value core then inflating the tyre as this allows a quicker air flow ,once the bead is seated reinstalled the valve core and hopefully the bead will remain seated and you can pump up normally . It just a different technology you have to adapt too some like tubeless some don't it down to your preference. I definitely a tubeless fan up 32000 miles without a road side stop so I will put up with a bit of extra faff for those results
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I have to admit that I did over-egg the difficulty of mounting a tyre for comedy effect. It can sometimes be that difficult but isn't usually.
I like tubes because they are keep-it-simple. I like tubeless because I don't get punctures.
I ride tubeless at the moment. Would I go back to tubes? Maybe. I'm a fan of both.
I've got a pair of expensive high throughput valves in a cupboard waiting for me to fiddle with. That's another story.
I like tubes because they are keep-it-simple. I like tubeless because I don't get punctures.
I ride tubeless at the moment. Would I go back to tubes? Maybe. I'm a fan of both.
I've got a pair of expensive high throughput valves in a cupboard waiting for me to fiddle with. That's another story.
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ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
I use Marathon tyres and put "goo" in them on top of that
since I started doing that I do not generally have any punctures
I did get slow one a couple of years ago - turned out to be a massive thorn that managed to get through the tyre and then sit there just far enough in to be invisible
sealant fixed it - but when it wiggled the seal broke
anyway - when I found it and fixed it I also took 7 other thorns out of the tyre - some of which had gone through the side wall and into the tube
sealant had sorted it
since I started doing that I do not generally have any punctures
I did get slow one a couple of years ago - turned out to be a massive thorn that managed to get through the tyre and then sit there just far enough in to be invisible
sealant fixed it - but when it wiggled the seal broke
anyway - when I found it and fixed it I also took 7 other thorns out of the tyre - some of which had gone through the side wall and into the tube
sealant had sorted it
oxoman
Well-Known Member
Started tubeless about 2017 and not really had any issues that stopped me riding on road. Converted my gravel bikes after a few yrs as i started to do more with them. Definitely a game changer. Personally I have a ghetto built airshow type tank using and old fire extinguisher, pressurise the tank then release in one hit with valve core removed, works brilliantly. As suggested keep spare valve cores as they can get gummed up and leak a bit. Some tyre tyrewalls are a bit porous so will leak a bit. It's the way forward. I also carry a tube and boot when I'm out bikepacking.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I haven't had a puncture in many years and many thousands of Km. This may be down to Marathon + tyres, a lack of hedges in Germany, or a combination of the two...
Fortunately I get lots of practice changing tyres at work, or I'd forget how...
Fortunately I get lots of practice changing tyres at work, or I'd forget how...
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Or at least lack of sadists planting hawthorns alongside routes used by walkers, animals and cycles who cut them with a flail without a collector attached, then don't do anything to pick up the cut thorns. 😠
But you can't really compare the ride comfort of Marathon + to a soft tyre like you can use with tubeless (or even most sealant tubes). Anyone happy to ride M+ probably has a very comfortable saddle, a suspension seatpost, an insensitive backside, or some combination of them!
I still put up with a couple of 5 minute roadside puncture repairs (if you can see or hear the hole and don't have to remove the wheel) a year because I've more than enough to do in the bike shed without adding things like sealant faff and topping up every 6 months to the schedules.
I'm too old school and still using tubes, square taper, rim brakes. Have moved from steel to aluminium, but carbon frames are still not on the agenda. Half my bikes are SS or fixed.
I appreciated though, the comfort of bigger tyres, when I moved up to 25mm tyres from 20mm supersonics.
I appreciated though, the comfort of bigger tyres, when I moved up to 25mm tyres from 20mm supersonics.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
You rebel!
Each to their own, but I've got to say the emboldened sounds in direct contrast the the rest, which seems like a massive palaver!
oxoman
Well-Known Member
To be fair I've only went tubeless after I bought new roadbike supplied tubeless. Soon realised it was the way to go on the mtb and eventually converted my old gravel bike, which is definitely the right way to go. Don't really need the roadbikes tubeless but kept that way.
