Guess I *won't* be going tubeless
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Okay smart guy, go google how to clean up sealant and see the efforts that people have to go through to remove it. Do you really think that you can dissolve the coral that sometimes forms inside of tires with just "a damp cloth"? The issue you seem to be missing is that this is dry and has been for a few days now. It's not drips left over from filling the tire.
Here we have a 700x35 Panaracer Gravelking SK, which has been hanging from the ceiling of my workshop for over a year. Note how I have to use special tools and techniques to remove it.
I mean, this isn't conjecture from down at the coop, but I think it goes toward proving a point.
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one of the guys at the lbs jokingly told me the proper way to mount a tubeless tire was to pump it up until it blew off. Sounds like the OOB bike shop the coop bought out might have used that same technique. Not sure how you get sealant all over everything under normal procedures.
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Here we have a 700x35 Panaracer Gravelking SK, which has been hanging from the ceiling of my workshop for over a year. Note how I have to use special tools and techniques to remove it.
I mean, this isn't conjecture from down at the coop, but I think it goes toward proving a point.
I mean, this isn't conjecture from down at the coop, but I think it goes toward proving a point.
-Matt
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It’s oddly soothing. While we were supposed to be doing something else, my daughter and I peeled sealant off of the inside of two tires for a solid 20 minutes.
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I'm having good luck with Finishline Multiseal on 2.25 MTB tires. Doesn't dry up. I had it in tire for 5 months and still all liquid when I took tire off.
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Here we have a 700x35 Panaracer Gravelking SK, which has been hanging from the ceiling of my workshop for over a year. Note how I have to use special tools and techniques to remove it.
I mean, this isn't conjecture from down at the coop, but I think it goes toward proving a point.
I mean, this isn't conjecture from down at the coop, but I think it goes toward proving a point.
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I honestly don't know what your problem is with tubeless. You don't like it, that's fine. But is it absolutely necessary to cloud every single thread in which the word "tubeless" occurs with your own brand of misinformation?
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Interesting. I weigh 230. LOTS of pressure on every part of that tire when I'm humping it down a hill at a fairly high rate of speed. Even more so when cornering at speed.
Maybe when the tires were put on the original rims the bead could have been damaged. I honestly don't think that's likely, but it's possible. Short of finding some damage on the tires I don't think I'm going to try running tubeless again. Tubes just aren't enough trouble to risk a blow out while riding.
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Maybe when the tires were put on the original rims the bead could have been damaged. I honestly don't think that's likely, but it's possible. Short of finding some damage on the tires I don't think I'm going to try running tubeless again. Tubes just aren't enough trouble to risk a blow out while riding.
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To be a bit childish...make me! Honestly, I’m allow to change posts whenever I like. I usually refrain from changing posts after someone has quoted them but up to that point, I can and will make changes as I wish.
Your implication in your post was that is “easy” and the latex comes off with water. Your gif demonstrates my point. The water does nothing. You could just use a cloth and mechanically remove the dried latex but it’s still a lot of work.
As for my “lack of knowledge”, I do know a thing or two about chemistry. I also know a thing or two about bicycles.
I said nothing about having problems with tubeless in my post. I’ve not said anything about tubeless one way or the other in this thread. I was addressing how to remove dried latex. You turned this into an argument about tubeless because you do that just about every time I post something. Your posts have show quite clearly exactly the point I was trying to make. It takes a lot of work to remove dried latex from just about anything.
As for my “lack of knowledge”, I do know a thing or two about chemistry. I also know a thing or two about bicycles.
I said nothing about having problems with tubeless in my post. I’ve not said anything about tubeless one way or the other in this thread. I was addressing how to remove dried latex. You turned this into an argument about tubeless because you do that just about every time I post something. Your posts have show quite clearly exactly the point I was trying to make. It takes a lot of work to remove dried latex from just about anything.
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I've had a lot of dried sealant all over my seat tube, pump, front der cable (bottom pull with pully), rear blinky and under seat bag. Came right off the first time I washed the bike. No different than the dirt and gave it no thought. It was Stan's if that matters. I'd think anyone that ever had a big leak experienced similar. Sticking to a pourous rough rubber tire is not the as smooth painted metal. An example... No one ever has had a hard time cleaning or removing liquid or dried latex sealant from their rim.
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I have those tires. Before I got them, I looked them up on the Googles and I got some mixed reviews. The reviewers said they were great right up until fourhundo to sixhundo milés. They would supposedly blow right off the rim. I personally have not ridden 4-6 hundo milés on the tires (they are winter tires only). My 25/28 tires [25 being width, 28 relative volume (that's how Spesh markets them)] say 85-95 psi on the sidewalls.
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Obviously tires remain inflated and stay in place due to a difference between atmospheric pressure outside of the tire, and inflated pressure inside the tire. If somehow one increased the air pressure between the bead and rim, there would be nothing to keep the bead from floating around. Nonetheless, that wouldn't really occur in a properly sealed tire.
And, my experience with tubeless so far (23mm), is that the tire fits tightly on the rim.
There are two factors with tire pressure and tire sizes.
PSI measures the outward pressure of the air on the tire, and is independent of tire size. So, having a bike tire or a truck tire at 100 PSI, the outward pressure is the same.
However, tire size apparently affects the stretch on the sidewall. So, the larger the tire at the same pressure, the more stretching force one puts on the sidewall and the bead.
I can't find the formulas at the moment, but they're on the web somewhere.
Ahh... LaPlace's law.
Pressure
So, as far as I can tell, the surface tension on the tire sidewalls vary with the cross sectional circumference (I think).
Anyway, if one has a 23mm tire at 100 PSI, and a 32mm tire at 100 PSI, then the sidewall tension of the larger tire should be 32/23, or about 1.4 times the sidewall tension. I think Thankfully I'm not an engineer.
This means that the bead interface of the 32mm tire must be 1.4 times stronger than the 23mm tire if the pressure is the same.
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You guys who run tubeless must get a lot of flats. I get one maybe every 1,000 miles or so max, 3 or 4 times a year.
From what I read in this thread about sealant, and from what I'm seeing in the videos in this thread, ain't no way it's for me. Jeez.
From what I read in this thread about sealant, and from what I'm seeing in the videos in this thread, ain't no way it's for me. Jeez.
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this is not rocket science. most of yall (esp the op) seem to be the most punishing types of ppl to deal with in the shop environment.
sealant leaves a residue on brake tracks and rotors that will make cantis AND discs sqeal.
sealant leaves a residue on brake tracks and rotors that will make cantis AND discs sqeal.
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But, yes, that is about what I get, one flat every 1000 miles or so... perhaps a half dozen a year (including a couple of bikes, trailers, etc).
I have to wonder how long until we start seeing some heavy-duty road tires coming out in tubeless.
Perhaps some vendors are waiting for others to shake out the problems before putting their flagship tires out as tubeless.
Perhaps the Gator Hardshell in tubeless?
They're coming. Perhaps in a decade we'll all be asking what tubes are
Very few car tires in the USA from the last 10 years take tubes, and most of those would be very vintage tires.
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Schwalbe Marathon Almotion is a step in that direction. It's a shame they're one of the most expensive non-fat tires you can buy. I paid a fair amount less for the tires on my car.
I don't get the tubeless-resistance of most of the big manufacturers, particularly Continental. Goodyear looks promising, but they're nearly as expensive as Schwalbe, who set the bar for absurdly expensive tires.
I don't get the tubeless-resistance of most of the big manufacturers, particularly Continental. Goodyear looks promising, but they're nearly as expensive as Schwalbe, who set the bar for absurdly expensive tires.
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I buy into Mavic's line on tubeless -- it's all about tolerances. Certain Velocity rims are notorious for being a bit undersized, which makes tire installation (too) easy. Slightly undersized tire beads work well in that case, but most tires blow off if run tubeless at pressures above 'soft'. Automobile wheels and tires are far more reliable in this regard, partly because of standards and partly because of much wider, thicker surfaces that seal. The bicycle industry is not nearly picky enough about tolerances between brands, IMO.
I'm not allowed to post URLs, so wind your way to
engineerstalk dot mavic dot com/en/road-ust-tubeless-bike-wheels-easy-safe-fast/
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engineerstalk dot mavic dot com/en/road-ust-tubeless-bike-wheels-easy-safe-fast/
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This is a lot of threads for something relatively simple to understand: if the tire did blow off the rim, there was either excessive pressure or a bead/rim failure.
The big question is whether the tire, a 32c Specialized Roubaix Pro 2Bliss, was, in fact, under spec pressure, which @MattTheHat says is indicated as 115psi on the sidewall, but which Specialized publishes as 90psi max. Was the sidewall marking double-checked, Matt? It's curious, because 115psi is the listed pressure max for the Roubaix Road Tubeless 23/25c, so given the silly nomenclature, it seems possible that reading the specs, one might easily mixup the tires' max pressure rating.
If a max pressure mixup ocurred, then overpressurization is the culprit.
If the RP2bliss was not overinflated by 10psi or so, then either the bead failed allowing air to push out, or the rim yielded, allowing the bead to be pushed out. Either way, the tire and rim should go to the LBS for inspection.
It's certainly possible, if unlikely, that Specialized erred by printing the wrong maximum inflation pressure on the 32c RP2bliss, but that just takes us back to the overinflation scenario.
The big question is whether the tire, a 32c Specialized Roubaix Pro 2Bliss, was, in fact, under spec pressure, which @MattTheHat says is indicated as 115psi on the sidewall, but which Specialized publishes as 90psi max. Was the sidewall marking double-checked, Matt? It's curious, because 115psi is the listed pressure max for the Roubaix Road Tubeless 23/25c, so given the silly nomenclature, it seems possible that reading the specs, one might easily mixup the tires' max pressure rating.
If a max pressure mixup ocurred, then overpressurization is the culprit.
If the RP2bliss was not overinflated by 10psi or so, then either the bead failed allowing air to push out, or the rim yielded, allowing the bead to be pushed out. Either way, the tire and rim should go to the LBS for inspection.
It's certainly possible, if unlikely, that Specialized erred by printing the wrong maximum inflation pressure on the 32c RP2bliss, but that just takes us back to the overinflation scenario.
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Maybe Specialized has recently revised its max pressure spec for these tires? Matt's tire might have been produced prior to this?
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This is a lot of threads for something relatively simple to understand: if the tire did blow off the rim, there was either excessive pressure or a bead/rim failure.
The big question is whether the tire, a 32c Specialized Roubaix Pro 2Bliss, was, in fact, under spec pressure, which @MattTheHat says is indicated as 115psi on the sidewall, but which Specialized publishes as 90psi max. Was the sidewall marking double-checked, Matt? It's curious, because 115psi is the listed pressure max for the Roubaix Road Tubeless 23/25c, so given the silly nomenclature, it seems possible that reading the specs, one might easily mixup the tires' max pressure rating.
If a max pressure mixup ocurred, then overpressurization is the culprit.
If the RP2bliss was not overinflated by 10psi or so, then either the bead failed allowing air to push out, or the rim yielded, allowing the bead to be pushed out. Either way, the tire and rim should go to the LBS for inspection.
It's certainly possible, if unlikely, that Specialized erred by printing the wrong maximum inflation pressure on the 32c RP2bliss, but that just takes us back to the overinflation scenario.
The big question is whether the tire, a 32c Specialized Roubaix Pro 2Bliss, was, in fact, under spec pressure, which @MattTheHat says is indicated as 115psi on the sidewall, but which Specialized publishes as 90psi max. Was the sidewall marking double-checked, Matt? It's curious, because 115psi is the listed pressure max for the Roubaix Road Tubeless 23/25c, so given the silly nomenclature, it seems possible that reading the specs, one might easily mixup the tires' max pressure rating.
If a max pressure mixup ocurred, then overpressurization is the culprit.
If the RP2bliss was not overinflated by 10psi or so, then either the bead failed allowing air to push out, or the rim yielded, allowing the bead to be pushed out. Either way, the tire and rim should go to the LBS for inspection.
It's certainly possible, if unlikely, that Specialized erred by printing the wrong maximum inflation pressure on the 32c RP2bliss, but that just takes us back to the overinflation scenario.
So, yes, the tire was run slightly over pressure. But when left over night, the tire was not over pressure. I'm not sure what it would take to blow the tire off the rim, but my gut feel would be something like 150% of the max pressure specification. I'm surprised the tire blew off the rim at all, having not been inflated over 101.5 PSI. I'm definitely surprised it blew off at 90 PSI. And I'm surprised that it blew off just sitting there at a lower pressure than while being ridden under load at the higher inflation. Lots of surprises for me.
I'll retire these Roubaix Pros out of caution. I'll eventually give tubeless another shot when I find some other tire that I want to try.
-Matt
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I purchased a new Giant Defy Adv. Pro 1 in March 2018 and it came with Giant’s 25mm Gavia AC1 brand tubeless tires on the SLR wheels. To date, I have put over 3250 miles on the bike.
The original tires were changed out at 1800 miles with not one flat. At that point they were replaced with the same AC1’s but moved up to a 28mm size. I just completed 8 days riding across Utah, and a 3 day/300 mile trip down PCH1 in California. Again, not one flat. I run 100 psi in the rear and 90 psi int the front, and I weigh 145 lbs.(65.77k)
If you’re getting a flat every 1000 miles, maybe you should reconsider the tubeless option.