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Tubeless failure at colder temps?
So Last night I got home from work and decided to take my Drifter out. I got all geared up and loaded the bike up on my truck and drove down to a trail. I checked the bike over before leaving the house.
I mounted the bike and started to pedal and felt the rear tire go soft. I dismounted and looked at the bike and sealant was coming out of both tires. The rear was just about empty. I’m assuming this happened because of the -20+ degree temperature change from my bike room to outside? Anybody else ever have this happen? Is it better to run tubes in the cold winter months? On the brighter side of things I ended up driving home and taking out the Kirk as it is being run with inner tubes and a dynamo. Glad I had such a great back up and I really enjoyed riding it after the sun had gone down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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I’ve had no issues on tubeless in the snow on my fatbike in temps below 0F. Re-seating and adding sealant may be all you need. FWIW, I’ve had no issues with either Stan’s or Orange Seal, although in general I’m happier with Orange Seal.
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I moved this thread from the classifieds to the general section.
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Innertubes.
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Can someone explain to me what's the advantage of tubeless for everyday riding? for me the sealant seems messy to deal with, once punctured it will act like an tubular. It sure saves some weight and rolling resistance, but for training rides is it worth it?
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Where is the ducking emoji I had a early tubeless road wheelset and it was horrible, I am sure they are better, but if I am riding clinchers they have a tube in them.
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Not sure what caused the OPs failure (though I too don't think it was just temperature differential), but for me, tubeless has been issue free for the past several years. This is everything from 28mm tires on up to 4.8" fatties, from 100F to subzero, paved to chunky steep singletrack, fast pacelines to leisurely cruises with the fam. I just don't worry or even think about my tires anymore. Air pressure check before the ride, sealant check once or twice a year. Other than that, i just ride. I'm pretty sure that the spare tube I carry "just in case" is probably rotted and non-functional at this point.
I have a box of flatted tubes in need of a patch that suggests it wasn't always this way. That's one data point on the advantages of tubeless. |
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Tubeless is great in that all the little glass cuts and shards just get plugged up real quickly, great for training/winter rides really. In summer I rarely have gotten flat with tubes but winter is a mess so tubeless should either solve or minimize flats (I commuted tubeless when I lived in NYC for a couple of years, it was great, no flats and man are the streets of NY riddled with glass). Also tubeless is not that hard to set up or maintain, I am not sure why people think that. _______ Also I know OPS bike and that kind of bike you want tubeless for sure... Not sure what happened and its really bizarre... I have not had that issue and just yesterday went from 65 degrees inside the house to 35 outside with my tubeless set (actually probably same wheels and tires you used... Reynolds ATR with gravelking 48mm Last edited by R3awak3n; 02-22-2019 at 04:26 PM. |
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I regularly take my MTB from a warm basement to outdoors without any issue with tubeless sealant.
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"new" system will have its pitfalls but I think its pretty flushed out (still needs work). The good things outweight the bad things imo. When it works its wonderful and you don't have to touch it for miles on end, when it does not work, sure it can be frustrating.
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Humorous but insightful look at road tubeless - GPLama
https://youtu.be/JzOebWnHtNI |
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Fat bike tire was flat this morning. That said, the bead didn't unseat, so I pulled the valve core, cleaned it, added a couple ounces of sealant, reaired, and off I went. Pretty sure it was a goopy valve core. Quote:
Is this one-half psi of pressure, or 1 or 2 psi? Without having the time to do the PV= nrT calculation, is it possible that just the temperature change from an indoor bike room (say, 70F) to 10F could drop the pressure from 4 to 2? |
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