Ohio_Roadie wrote:
manofthewoods wrote:
iamuwere wrote:
Have you done tubeless in MTB or anything prior? A decade in, it’s all usually pretty automatic for me. Just put new Conti’s on some Ronald in inter ten minutes.
Some tires weep through the sidewall for a long time.
The WTB Riddler that came on my new gravel bike weeped sealant for almost four weeks before they finally stopped.
But, I'm not sure how weeping sealant for 4 minutes, let alone 4 weeks is a feature.
Call me a dinosaur too but I don’t like Tubeless on the road. With a max of 72.5/73 psi according to the standard. You’re nearly forced into a 27-28 mm tire minimum. Some 25’s do work but most don’t. The tubeless compatible rims are a PITA to get a tire onto, the tires are harder to mount and at the end of the day you can’t get the sealant to seal, you still get to chuck a tube into it. Maybe I’ll be forced or evolve enough to like it on the road but right now it’s an extra mess being pushed by these companies to sell new, different things. It’s great in the MTB life but don’t see it as being necessary on the road until you factor in the hookless rims are easier and cheaper to make, or so I’ve heard. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong though.
The bolded part is specific to hookless rims. You can run higher pressures on hooked rims.
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