Does anyone have experience mounting regular tires (non-UST) to a Mavic UST rim with something like Stan’s to run tubeless?
UST tires are so damned heavy!!
I’ve done it with standard rims and the Stans rim strips which you won’t need since you have UST Rims. The process is basically the same though. You make a mixture of dish soap and water to coat the sides of the tires with. This serves two purposes: 1) It allows the tires to slide over the rims and lock the beads easier. 2) When you start to fill the tires you can see where air is escaping and put that side of the tire at the bottom so that the sealant can do it’s job. It’s much easier to fill them up with an air compressor or CO2 than it is with a floor pump.
I road the same set of tires for about a year and a half without a flat and without changing sealant. This is what ultimately caused me to flat b/c all of the sealant had dried up. I liked the puncture protection and ability to run low pressure but I’m not interested in messing with the sealant anymore. My new set of wheels are UST and I’m just going to run UST tires. FWIW two scoops of Stans is 120g (enough to seal two tires) and is probably the differenence between a standard tire and a UST. So a UST setup w/ no sealant is only going to be 100 - 200 grams heavier than the stans set-up without the hassle of messing with the sealant.
If you go to the ‘Save some Weight’ forum over at MTBR.com you can find more info on this than you will ever need to know. Good luck.
Thanks for the info. I posted over at MTBR.com as well, and getting some good tips.
I’m really not that great of a rider, so any weight I can save helps. I have a good engine against these mountain guys, but my technical skills aren;t honed yet.
It sounds like I might as well stick to the UST tires and save myself the headache.
I don’t know if it’s a full-on headache, but if you’re the constant tinkering and adjusting your bike type then I would say go for it. If you’re more of the ‘set it and forget it’ type then I would stay away from it.
“constant tinkering and adjusting your bike type”
Fits me to a “T”. I’ll see what I can find out. I’ll post weights as well for the others like me out there who like to get dirty!