Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
This is probably a good place to run tubeless based on what I have heard from others.
I once had an MTB tire (25 psi) like that with about a dozen of the "goatheads" stuck in all at the same time, staggered around the whole circumference of the tire. I simply rotated each puncture to the bottom (6 o'clock), let gravity pull the sealant down for a few seconds, then pulled out the goathead and let it seal up. Worked for all 12 punctures. Yet I'm still leery about going tubeless on the road bike, due to not trusting the sealant in a higher psi environment, and/or getting sealant on the tire bead and causing a leak, but that's what the spare tube could be for, if absolutely needed. I really need to pull the trigger and go full tubeless. Too many minor leaks on the road bike, probably from the lawnmowers casting the goatheads all over the bike path.