Tubeless

[Flyboy]

I presume the lower pressures come about , because the tyre is basically clipped to the rim of the wheel so no chance of it rolling off around a berm, but I am only guessing here ,

 

[screenman]

Won't argue with you but really?

Yep! Really, what you need to remember is I started riding, racing when they were really the only option. I remember new one's under the bed. Spreading Embrocation on my leg only to find it was tub cement, we did not have tape back then.

I also repaired my own, often not very successfully.

 

[dan_bo]

Yep! Really, what you need to remember is I started riding, racing when they were really the only option. I remember new one's under the bed. Spreading Embrocation on my leg only to find it was tub cement, we did not have tape back then.

I also repaired my own, often not very successfully.

Tub cement around your pods?! Niiiice.

 

[screenman]

Tub cement around your pods?! Niiiice.[/QUOTe

All over a hairy shin and nothing to wipe it off with until after I finished the cross race and got home.

 

[gelfy666]

any advice.............. im new to tubeless on my Bird and my rear keeps going flat over the course of a week, i cant see anything causing the leaking, so whats the best way to sort this out?

 

[dan_bo]

any advice.............. im new to tubeless on my Bird and my rear keeps going flat over the course of a week, i cant see anything causing the leaking, so whats the best way to sort this out?

http://www.a-dugast.com/single-post/2016/04/08/Ori-Tubeless-MTB-tubular

 

[screenman]

I mix a solution of washing up liquid and water together and spray it on the tyre, this gives away all it's secrets.

 

[Pale Rider]

It seems a bodge to me to have to use tape to seal the spoke holes and goo to seal the tyre.

A wheel with internally fixed (hooked?) spokes allows the rim itself to be solid and therefore airtight.

Bicycle tyres have not been designed to be airtight because they don't have to be - the inner tube does that.

I expect some tyres are now designed to be airtight, so properly 'tubeless' rather than 'tubeless ready'.

https://www.crankbrothers.com/product/view/690

 

[screenman]

It might seem a bodge, but it works.

 

[Pale Rider]

It might seem a bodge, but it works.

The tubeless set-up on car wheels looks better to me, which I reckon is the direction it may be heading on bicycles.

A mostly conservative bike industry and bike buying public means such developments take a long time.

But I reckon within a few years someone will produce a 'dry' tubeless bicycle wheel and tyre.

 

[screenman]

The tubeless set-up on car wheels looks better to me, which I reckon is the direction it may be heading on bicycles.

A mostly conservative bike industry and bike buying public means such developments take a long time.

But I reckon within a few years someone will produce a 'dry' tubeless bicycle wheel and tyre.

I think they might already be out there, but adding slime or whatever gives you added security.

 

[screenman]

Quick Google brings up UST.

 

[3narf]

I won't use those slime tubes; I fitted one once and it let go as soon as I inflated it. The disgusting green stuff was everywhere

 

[Pale Rider]

Quick Google brings up UST.

UST appears to be mostly about a solid rim bed - like the Crank Brothers wheel - and doesn't seem to have caught on since most of the links I've seen are several years old.

I suspect more development is required of tyres to make a reliable dry set-up.

The sealant may play a part in sealing the current tyres around the rim, as well as making the carcass airtight.

 

[Flyboy]

Another question on this subject, if you have fluid in your tyre , is there ever a chance that at low or high speed , it would gather in one place and give you a sort of giro effect like you have an egg in your tyre. Or am I just stupid