Lighter wheelset

allthegearnoidea

cooldad wrote:

The Spiderman wrote:

cooldad wrote:

Easy, buy tubeless stuff, and gunk, faff around for hours. Finally get them inflated.
Go for a ride, tyre burps, fit tube or walk back.

Alternatively use a dedicated tubeless rim, a decent tyre,follow Stans no tubes video, pump with a track pump,ride , enjoy a puncture free existence and laugh/point at Cooldad for tyre related ineptitude.

I'm old and wise enough to stick with tubes - just relating what I hear here. Including the chap last week who went out and bought a compressor.

But a Compressor is a Proper manly tool to buy!! if i had any use for one other than occasionaly pumping up bike tyres i would buy one!! but, for any seatng issues i've had with tubeless i use ther DIY 2L pop bottle version! as it happens, puta new tubeless tyre on my tubeless wheels yesterday and all it needed was the track pump,

To clarify CD, you've not used tubeless??

bennett_346

If you ride mainly on soft forest floors i cant see the benefit of tubeless. But for rocky hard ground surfaces i can totally see why people go tubeless.

Kerrmit1992

I mountain bike on various surfaces :-)

Both soft forest floors and hard rocky surfaces :-)

apreading

I am regularly swapping tyres, especially on my sons bike as he uses one bike for on-road and off-road in a wide variety of conditions and surfaces. (He has a BMX as well for that but is growing so fast I am not allowed to buy him separate road/mountain bikes - yet...).

So like cooldad, tubes are much easier for me and I dont have any problems with them so dont see any reason to change.

allthegearnoidea

If your a little 'weighty' like me and ride a hardtail tubeless is a godsend for running Normal pressure on the rear! Tubes to prevent pinching I had to run 50+psi, I've run the tubeless at 20psi!

supersonic

Can't stand tubeless!

rockmonkeysc

I have seen enough people have problems with tubeless to make a definate decision that I will be sticking with tubes.
I can't remember the last time I had a pinch flat and the last puncture I had involved a torn side.

supersonic

I'm going to get a set of these when they come down to a better price:

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/t ... es--36351/

allthegearnoidea

£45 a Tube! Chrooooooist!
I saw the pack of 5 repair patches were £15 but didn't think they'd be quite That much! :shock: :shock: :shock:

supersonic

I'd pay up to £15 each: no doubt they will be replicated!

agg25

http://www.bikeoutlet.co.uk/products/Ho ... 3-138.html

These are a bit more, but may well be better built (reading the reviews on Superstar website) and come with a nice tough Hope 2 EVO hub.

njee20

Those Eclipse tubes have been around for years, they've not got cheaper yet!

allthegearnoidea

'Greygoose' used them one many of his amazing builds or Rebuilds should that bne of his cannondales etc.
I thought these were a newer lighter version??

cooldad

supersonic wrote:

I'm going to get a set of these when they come down to a better price:

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/t ... es--36351/

Like a tenth or less, maybe.

allthegearnoidea wrote:

To clarify CD, you've not used tubeless??

Not on my own bikes no, but I've ridden a few - not long enough to notice any difference though.
I have ridden with plenty of people who have, and all in all, have probably had as many group tubeless issues as tubed.

I am heavy, ride low pressures (25ish front, 30ish rear) and have had one puncture in the last 4 years.
But I am no hero and tend to keep my wheels near the ground - I've also had a thousand or so years practice learning to pick lines carefully.

The Rookie

At your speed it gives you more time to pick your lines from what I hear?

bennett_346

cooldad wrote:

I've also had a thousand or so years practice learning to pick lines carefully.

Is that how long it takes you to ride down each trail like?

cooldad

bennett_346 wrote:

cooldad wrote:

I've also had a thousand or so years practice learning to pick lines carefully.

Is that how long it takes you to ride down each trail like?

Nah, that's how long it takes my nurse to wheel me down.