How do I know if these are tubeless ready wheels?
05-01-21, 08:13 PM
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How do I know if these are tubeless ready wheels?
I know they are listed as tubeless ready on website, but not sure if they were in 2019 or not.
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05-01-21, 08:19 PM
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The current generation A23 rim is tubeless compatible. All you need to make it tubeless ready is the rim tape and tubeless valve.
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Technically, all modern day rims are tubeless ready.
You can take pretty much any clincher rim and convert it to tubeless. It's all about proper installation of the right kind of tape and sealant and stem.
Tires however....
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You can take pretty much any clincher rim and convert it to tubeless. It's all about proper installation of the right kind of tape and sealant and stem.
Tires however....
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I don’t know much about them, but I assumed there was.
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The lesson is, if you don't know for sure, tape the rim. Tubes don't care what kind of a rim strip you're using. Install the valve. Mount the tubeless-compatible tire. If the beads lock and the tire holds some air, you're ready to try it with sealant. If not, use a tube.
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Post above yours is the answer....if the rim is not explicitly stated as "tubeless ready." Better option is uses a tubeless compatible rim (explicitly stated so by the manufacturer) if one has a hankering to be tubeless.
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In the wild west days before lots of manufactures started making tubeless-specific rims it was basically a coin toss as to whether you could make a rim tubeless or not -- some rim/tire combos really worked well, some didn't. So trying to go tubeless on a rim that is not specifically designated as such is not really that outlandish, it's been done a bunch.
Of course there's no reason to now since everyone makes tubeless rims.
OPs rims look like modern Velocity A23s which are, in fact, tubeless.
Of course there's no reason to now since everyone makes tubeless rims.
OPs rims look like modern Velocity A23s which are, in fact, tubeless.
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It's definitely not outlandish, but having a process for getting the beads to seat is the best insurance against dumping sealant in a tire that won't seat, and then you've got a mess. In fact, to this day, even on rims and tires that are tubeless ready, I still seat the beads first....then put the sealant in. Habits.
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Now I've heard of "ghetto tubeless," riders and mechanics actually successfully mounting tubless tires tubeless on non-tubeless rims. But that's with varying levels of success and reliability. Personally and professionally, I have more important things to do than spend hours trying to get equipment to do something it wasn't designed to do.
But yeah, if your A23s aren't branded tubeless ready, TLR, 2Bliss, or whatever, don't count on them working tubeless. Trust me, if a component is tubeless ready. the manufacturer will brag about it quite loudly.
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Absolutely.
Now I've heard of "ghetto tubeless," riders and mechanics actually successfully mounting tubless tires tubeless on non-tubeless rims. But that's with varying levels of success and reliability. Personally and professionally, I have more important things to do than spend hours trying to get equipment to do something it wasn't designed to do.
But yeah, if your A23s aren't branded tubeless ready, TLR, 2Bliss, or whatever, don't count on them working tubeless. Trust me, if a component is tubeless ready. the manufacturer will brag about it quite loudly.
Now I've heard of "ghetto tubeless," riders and mechanics actually successfully mounting tubless tires tubeless on non-tubeless rims. But that's with varying levels of success and reliability. Personally and professionally, I have more important things to do than spend hours trying to get equipment to do something it wasn't designed to do.
But yeah, if your A23s aren't branded tubeless ready, TLR, 2Bliss, or whatever, don't count on them working tubeless. Trust me, if a component is tubeless ready. the manufacturer will brag about it quite loudly.
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