Tubeless ready tyre setup

pseymour

I'm in the process of converting to tubeless ready tyres. I have a vague memory of reading in a mag about how to convert to tubeless ready and it mentioning going around you tyre and 'popping' the tiny air bubbles that exist naturally in rubber. Has anyone heard of this and is it worth doing. Presumably its to do with making the sidewalls less porous, but i've not seen anything about it since and can't recall where I read it to check.
thanks in advance, Pete.

cooldad

Sounds like nonsense to me.

njee20

Total rubbish. How would you even go about that!?

BG2000

pseymour wrote:

I'm in the process of converting to tubeless ready tyres. I have a vague memory of reading in a mag about how to convert to tubeless ready and it mentioning going around you tyre and 'popping' the tiny air bubbles that exist naturally in rubber. Has anyone heard of this and is it worth doing. Presumably its to do with making the sidewalls less porous, but i've not seen anything about it since and can't recall where I read it to check.
thanks in advance, Pete.

It's not April the 1st already is it ?

If you're "converting to tubeless ready tyres" that implies you are buying tubeless tyres, and therefore they are already optimised for tubeless setup, i.e. they have a tougher sidewall.

Have you actually looked at a tyre sidewall to see if there are bubbles ? Even if there were, they would be smaller than the head of a pin, so how would you pop them ?

Besides, a porous material is stronger than a porous material with all its bubbles popped :?

pseymour

Thanks for the advice Cooldad and Njee20. Subject now closed.