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I actually carry a squirt bottle of the stuff (more like 10:90 soap:water) along with spare tires. Makes tire mounting so much easier
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Every time I think about tubeless, I read threads like this, and the urge goes away.
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I've got a Schwalbe air blaster, I pump it up to 130# and so far have been able to seat any tire. Seat it, let it sit for a while, deflate, remove the valve core, inject the sealant, work your way back out. Spin the wheels or if possible, just ride around for a while.
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Thanks for the tips, everyone! I'll report back after I have a chance to add sealant and see what happens.
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Success!
Just want to come back and update this thread.
First and foremost, I would like to offer an apology to tubeless pal. I have to confess my initial impression of tubeless was not very positive due to a couple of minor setbacks. Looking back, alot of it had to do with operator's error. There's a learning curve to this thing, not a huge one but definitely requires a bit of reading up and experimenting on my own. That's why it helps to have someone show me how and I was lucky enough to have the best of the best teach me the rope but I was admittedly a slow learner and gave up far too easily. So, I decided to give tubeless another chance this week and boy this time around everything went so smoothly. I mean, basically I got everything from taping the rim to mounting the tire to seating the tire to removing valve stem to injecting sealant to re-installing valve stem to inflating the tire all done in 15 minutes or less. I know what some of you might say, because I was thinking of the same thing myself before - 15 minutes?! I can just put in a tube and inflate all in 30 seconds! Maybe not 30s, a couple of minutes. Well... I am not gonna try and convince anyone to switch over to tubeless. that's a personal choice. But I can tell you now, I am happy to be offered both options. I still have a whole bunch of wheelset that are not tubeless ready, I am not gonna throw them out overnight. I am gonna continue to use them. I have been happy with them in the past so it's not a problem to begin with. Equipment: Pacenti SL23 wheelsets Schwalbe Pro One 25mm tubeless ready tires The cheapo $40 pancake compressor from Harbor freight was able to seat the tire just fine. I am not sure if it's up to the task for the bigger volume tubeless tires like wtb horizon 650bx47mm but we shall see. Anyway...i know I am behind the curve and that's fine.
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Just successfully installed another tubeless on a HED Belgium rim. The tire is Panaracer Gravel King 28 slick.
Getting better at it, this time the whole process took 5 minutes.
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I'll chime in again as I have in the past on a couple of points. One, as said before, if this is a new tire, put a tube in and inflate for one or two days. It just makes everything easier.
Two, clip off any molding gas nibs or flashing that happens to remain on the tire bead (Schwalbe is bad about that). You want the rubber bead as smooth as possible where it contacts the rim. Tubeless is really pretty easy once you go thru the learning process and so much better in many ways.
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Thanks for chiming in simple pal, I am still waiting for your return to Austin so we can go gravel riding.
Well...a bit of a setback. Got up this morning to two of the three tubeless wheels deflated, one completely and the other probably about 60%. Now I have to investigate where the leak is. Any possible explanations?
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Too bad -pal-blocks me, a little humor in these pretty un humorous times..
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Inflate and go ride them for a while. If it happens again, add a little more sealant. I have a set of Boyd Altamonts with Maxxis ReFuse 32's. Identical rims and in theory, identical tires. Same tape, stems, and amount of sealant in each. One sealed up and stayed that way, only added air once a week, and the other required more sealant before it would finally stay inflated overnight.
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Spinning on a truing stand would tend to keep the sealant in one spot until it came to rest. Going on a ride is good if itβs erratic like an mtb ride but not steady like a TT. The sealant needs to be distributed all around the inside of the tire and rim interface. No tubes has helpful videos on their site re: shaking Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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