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Originally Posted by Marcus_Ti
Yuppers.

IME.....Big(ger) tires and lower pressures (CX/gravel and bigger/lower) it works pretty well and reliably on smaller punctures, and if needed with a bacon-strip insert or similar. Narrow roadie rubber and high(er) pressures, OTOH....complete crapshoot of severity and luck. I've never had it hold air enough to not warrant a tube almost immediately and be a goopy mess. My LBS actually dubbed roadie tubeless "the crappy form of tubeless".
That's the other thing with road tubeless - even if it seals right away there just isn't enough air volume to not result in almost immediate need to re-inflate.
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