Originally Posted by
alcjphil
It has been working well for you, but many people have had trouble properly taping tubeless ready rims and have become frustrated with road tubeless. My take is that the future of road tubeless wheels and tires lies with setups that do not require taping. The very first tubeless road rims produced by Shimano did not require tape. I think that they were onto something
I think I agree that the tapeless variant is a better design fore tubeless and may have been what I looked for if my original choice of wheels had been based primarily on going tubeless. But to say that they aren’t tubeless ready because of a relatively minor inconvenience of tape is silly. I think tape gets blamed for other problems in the tubeless arena, the main one being the lack of standards means one can encounter tire-rim mismatches where certain tire brands just don’t mate well with certain rims.