Tubes on Tubless rims?

harvoir

Is it safe to fit tubes / tyres onto tubeless rims? I'm just getting concerned about the agro as i've started cycling back and forth work...

gundersen

as far as I know the only difference with tubeless rims is that they are stronger and have a slightly more pronounced lip.

so can't see why it would be a problem

redddraggon

AFAIK road tubeless rims does both type (tubeless + tube)

maddog 2

+1

tubeless rims often have the bead lower down, to help seat the tyre. In other words, the 'well' of the rim is less deep. They also sometimes have a different bead shape, for the same reason. Neither of these should be a problem for a standard tyre and tube setup to work okay.

Tubeless rims also often don't have spoke holes, but this will clearly be fine with a tyre and tube.

Many wheels are now being marketed as fine for both systems (two-way fit etc.).

I think tubeless will continue to gather momentum. If I wasn't currently running Open Pros*, I'd definitely be gving them a whirl.


*OPs are difficult to convert as the eyelets don't work well with the sealing tape, from what I've read. You can run rimstrips but they're extra weight so the benfits become questionable

harvoir

maddog 2 wrote:

+1

tubeless rims often have the bead lower down, to help seat the tyre. In other words, the 'well' of the rim is less deep. They also sometimes have a different bead shape, for the same reason. Neither of these should be a problem for a standard tyre and tube setup to work okay.

Tubeless rims also often don't have spoke holes, but this will clearly be fine with a tyre and tube.

Many wheels are now being marketed as fine for both systems (two-way fit etc.).

I think tubeless will continue to gather momentum. If I wasn't currently running Open Pros*, I'd definitely be gving them a whirl.


*OPs are difficult to convert as the eyelets don't work well with the sealing tape, from what I've read. You can run rimstrips but they're extra weight so the benfits become questionable

Thanks for the response, the carbon rims i have are very shallow, probably less than 15mm, i'll give it a go though. Cheers all

maddog 2

just to avoid confusion, the above refers to tubeless rims, not tubular rims (which have no bead at all)

mattsccm

I was just about to fire in an say "you must be joking" I read it as the OP thinking of using tubular tyre rims.
No way

geoff_ss

mattsccm wrote:

I was just about to fire in an say "you must be joking" I read it as the OP thinking of using tubular tyre rims.
No way

Me too.

If that is what he means then don't even try it. They're totally different sections.

Geoff