View Poll Results: What PSI would you run? ENVE says 60, Conti says 80-109. Details in first post.
60-64
5
17.86%
65-69
4
14.29%
70-74
5
17.86%
75-79
2
7.14%
80-84
3
10.71%
85-89
2
7.14%
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Poll: ENVE says 60psi, Continental says 80-109psi. What to do...
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1 - in some cases if you get a puncture with tublesss you don't have to stop to fix a flat - it will seal itself while you cleanly outride the pack of wolves.
2 - wolves love orange seal. If they smell it they'll rip open your tires to get it, while you make a clean getaway on foot.
Tada!
2 - wolves love orange seal. If they smell it they'll rip open your tires to get it, while you make a clean getaway on foot.
Tada!
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Depends on the size of the resulting cut. In 3+ years of running tubeless, I've had three cuts that didn't permanently seal; two of those cuts totalled the tires. Tubeless obviously isn't going to help in these cases, but they're few and far between for me. What's a regular occurrence, though, are run of the mill punctures that would leave me changing a tube of the side of the road. Those have been essentially eliminated.
Tires are a little more expensive, but not buying a dozen tubes and CO2 cartridges(or more) every year will help lower costs.
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I wonder if the ENVY warning is related to this. https://www.bicycleretailer.com/prod...g#.XZ9w4397mBY
Perhaps too much tire inflation makes the sharp edge issue worse. (OP, run your hand over the inside of the rim edge. This apparently has been quite sharp on some of their rims in the past. (The mold line from construction.)
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Perhaps too much tire inflation makes the sharp edge issue worse. (OP, run your hand over the inside of the rim edge. This apparently has been quite sharp on some of their rims in the past. (The mold line from construction.)
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+1. I used to get 10-12 punctures per year from thorns(every thing that grows in Phoenix has thorns), but so far this year I've been flat free for 9890 miles,
Tires are a little more expensive, but not buying a dozen tubes and CO2 cartridges(or more) every year will help lower costs.
Tires are a little more expensive, but not buying a dozen tubes and CO2 cartridges(or more) every year will help lower costs.
You know what really sucks? Getting a flat when it's raining and 40F, having to stop, take the wheel off, take the tire off, find the cause and deal with it, put a new tube in, get the tire back on, and put the wheel back in. By the time all that is said and done, I'm shivering, and then getting started again means being cold for the next ten minutes after I start again.
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Tires are 700x38 Gravel Kings on my gravel bike at about 65-70 psi.
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Rode 15 miles at 75 psi. I think I’m going back to 70. I didn’t feel appreciably faster but I did feel a lot more of the road imperfections.
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What tubeless mix is plugging holes that big for you?
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I rode another 40 miles of mixed pavement and gravel that day. The next week on a steep gravel descent the plug I put in pulled loose (probably user error - first time plugging). I replugged it in the middle of a 30 mile ride, went home and unmounted the tire (almost brand new), washed it out with a hose, put a regular glue patch on the inside of the tire, refilled with orange seal, put a but of super glue in the hole from the outside and have ridden another 500 trouble free miles since then (although with a couple more noticeable punctures that sealed without plugging).
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