tubeless tyre

[colly]

Anyone here use them ?

How do they compare?

 

[YahudaMoon]

Hi colly. I don't think their is much in it to be honest with the technolegy nowadays. Word is even pro racers use clinchers sometimes for safety reasons. I think unless you want to be shaving a point of a second of a TT and dont mind the glue faff I wouldnt bother personally.
Never raced on mine for the above reasons and mine have just become a ornament for the shed

 

[ColinJ]

I think colly is talking tubeless tyres rather than tubular tyres (tubs) but perhaps he got it wrong and he is referring to tubs?

I don't like the idea of faffing about with tubs, but tubeless tyres might be worth looking at in the future.

 

[colly]

Yes I was thinking of tubeless tyres rather than tubs.

I can see the attraction and have read a couple of reports dated a while ago that seem to suggest they are good for avoiding punctures if you have 'slime' in them.

I just wondered if anyone had any direct experience of them.

 

[al-fresco]

There was a very favourable write-up in this month's Peloton (issue 7) which included a practical guide to fitting them. Never encountered them in the wild though.

 

[colly]

There was a very favourable write-up in this month's Peloton (issue 7) which included a practical guide to fitting them. Never encountered them in the wild though.

Thanks for that. I looked online and found their site and a video review of tubeless. Looks like a quality magazine.

 

[al-fresco]

Thanks for that. I looked online and found their site and a video review of tubeless. Looks like a quality magazine.

Now that's just irritating - I'd looked for the video to send you a link and couldn't find it! (Found it now though.)

I stumbled across the magazine in our corner shop a few months ago with a big black and white picture of Fausto Coppi on the cover. It was love at first sight!

 

[screenman]

We have them on a few bikes and like them a lot. You can do a cheap conversion as we did once by cutting and stretching a 20 inch tube around the wheel and cutting off the excess, replace the tyre insert slime and inflate. Ours have lasted a year or so now without problems.

 

[colly]

We have them on a few bikes and like them a lot. You can do a cheap conversion as we did once by cutting and stretching a 20 inch tube around the wheel and cutting off the excess, replace the tyre insert slime and inflate. Ours have lasted a year or so now without problems.

At first I thought you were joking. Then I thought, wait a minute, the tight 20" tube might seal the spoke holes so maybe, now I'm thinking.................Really?

I'm still not sure.

 

[al-fresco]

We have them on a few bikes and like them a lot. You can do a cheap conversion as we did once by cutting and stretching a 20 inch tube around the wheel and cutting off the excess, replace the tyre insert slime and inflate. Ours have lasted a year or so now without problems.

Though if the tyre did deflate it wouldn't stay on the rim - would it? How are you getting a valve in - presumably it's the one on the 20" tube? (The more I think about this the more I like it!)

 

[screenman]

al-fresco, you have all the answers already.

 

[mr Mag00]

i run them on my mtb and think they are fab, can run a few psi lower too due to lack on pinch p******es. have seen the goo seeping out form thorn holes etc. really like them for over ayear without any issues now

 

[al-fresco]

al-fresco, you have all the answers already.

I do now - http://www.tubelesswheels.com/index.html

I think I feel the need for a flip-flop single speed MTB with tubeless tyres...

 

[palinurus]

I'm thinking of trying them on my 'cross bike, probably by using my regular tyres and rims and getting a Stans no-tubes kit.