Scwalbe G-One anyone?

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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    My God, 2 hours later and they are still up............ (they do have sealant in now mind).
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  • 97th choice
    97th choice Posts: 2,222
    bendertherobot wrote:
    My God, 2 hours later and they are still up............ (they do have sealant in now mind).

    Mine wouldn't go up with a track pump at first, so I put tubes in for 24 hours and after that they went up perfectly, and my track pump is a brand x job.
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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Still up and firm.
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  • 97th choice
    97th choice Posts: 2,222
    bendertherobot wrote:
    Still up and firm.

    Fnar.


    Just measured mine, coming up at 38 on the button on a 17mm rim.
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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    So, onto the rear.

    Bloody hell. It's been on for 3 days with a tube. Took it off, unhooked one side. Could NOT roll the other side off the hook at all. Stuck firm. Fairy liquid. Bath, heat, cold. Nothing. Finally dried it completely, gave it one last almighty heave, popped off. Then ran out of rim tape.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    MrB123 wrote:
    I'd be interested to hear what you think of them. Are you planning to use them exclusively for road use or a bit of mixed ground?

    Well, I did 2.5 hours on these this morning over mainly wet, gritty, sometimes muddy backroads. I live in a rural area and tractors do drag a lot of crap out of the fields onto the roads in this weather, so conditions were about as bad as they would have been intended for.

    Really impressed with them. I'm around 73kg, front was at 55psi, rear at 60 - the ride was excellent. I was also on a new bike (3rd ride on it), so difficult to be competely objective at the moment. The S-Ones seem very supple and every bit as quick as a racing clincher - which effectively, I suppose they are in any case.
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,815
    They sound great. I can certainly identify with your description of those roads!

    Are you running them tubeless?
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Not at the moment, but it's on the to do list....
  • RuthinRoadWarrior
    RuthinRoadWarrior Posts: 25
    I'm interested in these as well.

    I too have a Rose DX Cross bike which came with DT Swiss tubeless wheels.

    Not tried tubeless before.

    97th Choice mentions shaping the tyre first with a tube.

    Is this necessary with tubeless tyres? Do I need to shape them first for 24 hours before removing the tube (and inserting sealant)?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    I'm struggling to work out what they man by it tbh, I ve never done anything like that. The whole process works easiest when everything is new...
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  • Fat-Boy-Roubaix
    Fat-Boy-Roubaix Posts: 413
    Love my S-Ones done over 5000 miles tubeless so far mainly on the older version of the 23 & 25mm Ones. I like the normal One tubless tyres but they cut up so easy and become troublesome after 1200 odd miles. The S-One rides nice a bit slow I think but plush ride and don't seem to cut up like the normal Ones'. Under heavy braking in the wet they are amazing, I assume it is the wider profile as I can't believe the tread makes a whole heap of difference.

    Having said that can't see me sticking with them once Summer arrives but they will be my default winter tyre from now on.
  • Fat-Boy-Roubaix
    Fat-Boy-Roubaix Posts: 413
    RuthinRoadWarrior wrote:
    I'm interested in these as well.

    I too have a Rose DX Cross bike which came with DT Swiss tubeless wheels.

    Not tried tubeless before.

    97th Choice mentions shaping the tyre first with a tube.

    Is this necessary with tubeless tyres? Do I need to shape them first for 24 hours before removing the tube (and inserting sealant)?
    I never have, the only problem I had with the S-One was as it was on a wider rim couldn't get it to seal over the valve entrance, so had to use Co2 and press down above the valve to encourage the bead to snap in.
  • 97th choice
    97th choice Posts: 2,222
    RuthinRoadWarrior wrote:
    I'm interested in these as well.

    I too have a Rose DX Cross bike which came with DT Swiss tubeless wheels.

    Not tried tubeless before.

    97th Choice mentions shaping the tyre first with a tube.

    Is this necessary with tubeless tyres? Do I need to shape them first for 24 hours before removing the tube (and inserting sealant)?

    It's not necessary but helpful, folding tyres will be a bit misshapen when they first come out of the box. mine wouldn't go up on the rim with a track pump when they were first unpacked and fitted, now I expect they would have gone up fine with a compressor but seeing as I don't have one and didn't want to go to my local garage that day. I stick a tube in for 24 hours with them pumped up rock solid and hey presto they went on with a track pump after that.

    The 24 hours could be reduced to 2 hours or 20 mins for all I know, but it worked for me
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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Same here. I know Ugo has done it in the past as well.
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  • 97th choice
    97th choice Posts: 2,222
    Ran mine in to work on quite low pressures today, didn't feel nice at all in turns. going to try them a little firmer on the identical route in reverse later.
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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    How low? I'm using mine at 70 psi on the roads. Would probably drop to 40-50 on trails.
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  • 97th choice
    97th choice Posts: 2,222
    bendertherobot wrote:
    How low? I'm using mine at 70 psi on the roads. Would probably drop to 40-50 on trails.

    sub 40, want to see what the lower limit would be and pretty sure I found it Reckon a knock off road would possibly cause a burp.
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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    My rear is now on. I do rank it as one of the most difficult tyre/rim combos ever (G-One and Revo Prolite)
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  • 97th choice
    97th choice Posts: 2,222
    Knocked out 100k on mine last night.Road, gravel, red trail and finally open moorland before back to the road. Really impressed
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  • IanLD
    IanLD Posts: 423
    Had a huge fight with mine to get them mounted on Alex ATD470 rims, but that was from straight out of the box.

    Took about 2 hours per tyre, but I've never fitted tubeless before, so loads of Doc Blue and sealant all over the place before car compressor finally got them to inflate.

    They oozed sealant for a few days initially, but now (two and a half months later), are not much worse than normal tyres for pressure drop.

    Running the 35mm at 55psi rear and 50psi front. Quite staggering the ground conditions they will tackle and shrug off, although the Jamis Renegade Expert wasn't bad on stock Clements.

    Have ended up with some PB segments, so they aren't slow tyres, although they don't feel as fast as they are. Really confidence inspiring and great to throw around.

    Haven't had any technical issues to deal with yet, but carry 'anchovies' and a spare inner tube and levers just in case.

    Useful tips here like using an inner tube overnight to get them in to shape before trying to mount them tubeless. I'll be better prepared next time!
  • coops1967
    coops1967 Posts: 99
    IanLD wrote:
    Took about 2 hours per tyre, but I've never fitted tubeless before, so loads of Doc Blue and sealant all over the place before car compressor finally got them to inflate.

    Another tip I got from looking at several how-to's before doing my first tubeless install was:-
    DON'T put the sealant in on first inflation.

    Get tyre inflated and bead seated...

    then let the air back out nice and easy.

    Remove the inner valve core from inside the valve stem, and using a biggish/mediumish syringe (or the bottle/pack like Caffe Latex supplied sealant in the 60ml bag with a tube) insert the sealant into tyre.
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    Reinflate (should be much easier as it's already been seated once) and shake it all aboot. No mess.


    I've decided to make tubeless life even easier in future by buying
    ps I had to remove and reinstall one Schwalbe Pro One tyre as it was on the 'wrong way' (not that the direction probably makes barely any difference unlike a treaded car tyre... but once i realised it was wrong.... :roll: ) - anyway, second time refitting was noticeably easier...

    pps fitting new Schwalbe tubeless to a Stans Notube Grail rim was way easier than fitting a (tubed) Challenge Strada Bianca 30.... mercy. :shock:
  • IanLD
    IanLD Posts: 423
    Did try to inflate tyre without sealant, but nothing happened using track pump or compressor. Think the biggest mistake I made was trying to mount tyres that had been folded up in the box until a few minutes before mounting.

    I did try to shape them by hand, but they weren't exactly tyre shape when inflating.

    They were a very easy fit over the AlexRims ATD470, perhaps tighter combinations allow easier inflation too.

    Some nice products you've highlighted there to simplify the task and looks like they can fit easily in a bag, so having to deal with an issue outdoors covered too.

    I'm enjoying the G-One's immensely, but other than mounting them, haven't had to touch them again and as I said above, after the initial sidewall oozing sealant, they now need very little more than normal inner tubes to keep inflated.

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