Tubeless Tires on Road bike. Yuck!
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Ironically, I’m the store manager of an automotive shop that specializes in tires. Was joking with my guys today….that I could’ve competed a “4 pop”(4 new tires mounted and balanced) on a Chevy 2500 in less time than it took me to seat 2 tubeless bike tires. LOL. (For the record: I could actually finish that truck in under 30 mins).
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Just get a better tyre that wont puncture in the first place and you wont have to worry about the sealant plugging the hole or not. That's been My experience for the past two years or so. I believe you are venturing down a path of backwards logic. like - the more punctures you get, the better TL is, cos they (mostly) get plugged by the sealant.
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The reason the opinion varies substantially on tire choice comes down to many factors. Primary being for myself ride quality over puncture resistance. Obviously any one can go out and buy a pair of Gatorskins or Marathons however they are dogs of a tire and destroy the ride quality of your bike. Some of my favourite posts are the person riding a older titanium bike with high pressure narrow Gatorskins then raving about the high quality of the titanium ride, it's like they are living in an alternative universe.
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Why is it impossible to believe that people, living and riding in their own reality, are unable to make a better decision about their equipment choices than you (a nameless, faceless person living in some far-flung place with the godforsaken spelling of "tire" with a "y") are able to do on their behalf?
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The oem tires are loose…causing air pressure to be the only thing pressing the bead against the rim. Simply letting air out of the tire(s) should not cause a properly fitted tire to come loose from the rim
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Technically my bike mechanic skills are lacking, but seating beads is pretty much the same for bike or car tires.…in hindsight, I’m convinced that my tire/wheel combo is the culprit.
The oem tires are loose…causing air pressure to be the only thing pressing the bead against the rim. Simply letting air out of the tire(s) should not cause a properly fitted tire to come loose from the rim
The oem tires are loose…causing air pressure to be the only thing pressing the bead against the rim. Simply letting air out of the tire(s) should not cause a properly fitted tire to come loose from the rim
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Kudos for a primary language other than English, I suppose, but you're missing the point that people ride in different places, under different conditions and that they have different preferences, skills, tools, and workflows. It's awesome that you enjoy riding on ****** tyres, but I'll take a pass on your one-size-fits-all approach and do what works for me and my conditions.
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Sure .. and your answer is the expected "frozen garden hose" argument :-) Its not my experience. A good protected tyre rides just fine, given reasonable pressure. - Just like a "supple" tyre will ride comfortable or like concrete depending on pressure. Imo the "frozen garden hose" argument is old wives tales perpetuated by ppl that never tried or possibly decades ago tried a 23mm gator at 100 psi and concluded it must be the tyre and not the insane pressure that ppl used to run
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Yeah, I dunno. Lots of TL tyres are pretty burly. The GP5000 TL 25mm is ~300g and nothing like a "supple" race tyre on account of the air tight liner and the extra burly beads. Imo, is all extremely exaggerated and magnified through the lens of the internet. Its just like on the HIFI forums, ppl arguing to the end of time that one digital cable is muuuch better than the other and compressed music sound like garbage and blah, blah, blah! Sure, the difference is non zero, but more often than not its miniscule and even below threshold of human perception. Same with tyres. Ride your protected tyres at 1 psi less then your supple race day tyres and you be fine, except your metric century will be 5 minutes more. Outside of pro racing for money, - Who gives a damn? You wouldn't even notice without a stopwatch :-)
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Tubeless just isn't the solution to anything other than flats on road.
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Seems to me the fear and FUD related to "flats on the road" is a welcome revenue generator in terms of upselling tyres, TL associated equipment and service hours in the shop .. Right?! :-)
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Just what the thread needed, a poster known to make up B.S. arguments defending Gatorskins when he admitted to never having ridden them, now B.S.ing about tubeless ready tires that I'm equally sure he's never ridden.
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Out of all the I-don't-know-how-many thousands of miles, I've had a total of one pinch flat, from a cattle guard when I wasn't paying attention.
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Im sure he is still waiting for a solution. Im waiting too.
In the mean time OP could just ride a normal clincher*, with an adequate level of protection for terrain he is riding in. No faff and no worries.
*Except if its a hookless rim that require a TL compatible tyre, no matter if you stick a tube in there or not.
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These days cars are 100% TL and no liquid sealant, and it works just fine. So, whats the difference? Cars ship (:-) with tyres that doesn't puncture every two "rides", the pressure is MUCH lower and mounting standardized tyres to standardized rims is squarely in the hands of professionals with the proper tools. Its nothing like the diy bike mechanic trying to fit a semi compliant tyre to a semi compliant rim with amateur tools.
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Still not having deployed a proper, easy to use TL standard, shipping every bike with a TL setup would generate a tsunami of service requests and complaints.
These days cars are 100% TL and no liquid sealant, and it works just fine. So, whats the difference? Cars ship (:-) with tyres that doesn't puncture every two "rides", the pressure is MUCH lower and mounting standardized tyres to standardized rims is squarely in the hands of professionals with the proper tools. Its nothing like the diy bike mechanic trying to fit a semi compliant tyre to a semi compliant rim with amateur tools.
These days cars are 100% TL and no liquid sealant, and it works just fine. So, whats the difference? Cars ship (:-) with tyres that doesn't puncture every two "rides", the pressure is MUCH lower and mounting standardized tyres to standardized rims is squarely in the hands of professionals with the proper tools. Its nothing like the diy bike mechanic trying to fit a semi compliant tyre to a semi compliant rim with amateur tools.
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Still not having deployed a proper, easy to use TL standard, shipping every bike with a TL setup would generate a tsunami of service requests and complaints.
These days cars are 100% TL and no liquid sealant, and it works just fine. So, whats the difference? Cars ship (:-) with tyres that doesn't puncture every two "rides", the pressure is MUCH lower and mounting standardized tyres to standardized rims is squarely in the hands of professionals with the proper tools. Its nothing like the diy bike mechanic trying to fit a semi compliant tyre to a semi compliant rim with amateur tools.
These days cars are 100% TL and no liquid sealant, and it works just fine. So, whats the difference? Cars ship (:-) with tyres that doesn't puncture every two "rides", the pressure is MUCH lower and mounting standardized tyres to standardized rims is squarely in the hands of professionals with the proper tools. Its nothing like the diy bike mechanic trying to fit a semi compliant tyre to a semi compliant rim with amateur tools.
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Honestly, you appear to miss the point, I compared to point out the Are very different and those differences may just be what make one work very well in an application with very little room for fail and the other not so much, leaving the consumer with lots of issues, as witnessed by this thread.
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Anyway, how many bikes do you reckon Giant move per annum? People don't tend to start threads about how they didn't have any issues with their bike tyres. It's the typical forum negativity effect. A few people have issues and then people who haven't even used tubeless tyres (not saying you haven't btw) amplify that negativity. You could read a thread like this (selectively skipping any positive remarks) and conclude that tubeless tyres are the biggest pita ever invented.
If tubeless tyres really were a pile of crap, then evolution would soon make them extinct. But what I see is the exact opposite, it's a growth market. I'm not going to say it has fully matured, at least not in the road tubeless market, but it's rapidly getting there.
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Honestly, you appear to miss the point, I compared to point out the Are very different and those differences may just be what make one work very well in an application with very little room for fail and the other not so much, leaving the consumer with lots of issues, as witnessed by this thread.
FWIW, I'm a "tubed" guy who sees no point in putting up with the PITA that tubeless can be. Again, just me...
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Reminded once again this morning why it's less than ideal on the road. With such a low air volume and higher pressures a tiny loss of air as the sealant works is a huge pressure drop.
Kudos to all those who live where there are lots of flat hazards but as someone who just came off 3,000 miles on a tubed tire without a single flat going tubeless on that wheel because of lack of stock is proving to be a hard pill to swallow.
Kudos to all those who live where there are lots of flat hazards but as someone who just came off 3,000 miles on a tubed tire without a single flat going tubeless on that wheel because of lack of stock is proving to be a hard pill to swallow.
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Nope…no pressure in the tire when I rolled it. Never occurred to me that a bead could come free with that little force put on them. I ever so careful rolled the bike 6 feet. I broke the bead on the rear tire by simply touching the sidewall when I was injecting the sealant into the stem.
Not sure what carefully rolling the bike is supposed to accomplish. You put the tire on the rim, apply sealant through the valve stem, replace the core (or seat the bead then replace the core), inflate and seat the bead, then spin the tire as hard as you want to spread the sealant.
Rolling the bike carefully and breaking the bead gives me visions of someone trying to do this with no air in the tires. Not sure what is going on.
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Something is wrong either with the tires or the process/technique you are utilizing.
Not sure what carefully rolling the bike is supposed to accomplish. You put the tire on the rim, apply sealant through the valve stem, replace the core (or seat the bead then replace the core), inflate and seat the bead, then spin the tire as hard as you want to spread the sealant.
Rolling the bike carefully and breaking the bead gives me visions of someone trying to do this with no air in the tires. Not sure what is going on.
Not sure what carefully rolling the bike is supposed to accomplish. You put the tire on the rim, apply sealant through the valve stem, replace the core (or seat the bead then replace the core), inflate and seat the bead, then spin the tire as hard as you want to spread the sealant.
Rolling the bike carefully and breaking the bead gives me visions of someone trying to do this with no air in the tires. Not sure what is going on.