You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
We've all heard the horror stories of people trying to convert to tubeless tyres, sealant up the walls due to tyres that won't seat, and so on.
Well, today I had my Joes's No Flats tubeless valves delivered to go along with my Orange Seal Endurance sealant and Tesa 4289 tape that have been waiting patiently.
Armed with a new Minion DHF 2.5WT, my Raceface AR27 rims and a roughly 10 year old Joe Blow track pump, I began...
Front DHF 2.3 off, old rip tape off, 2x layers of Tesa tape, hole poked for the valve, core out, tyre back on, a bit of gusto with the track pump and ping!.... ping! 🙂 seated first time. Pump removed, sealant inserted with the tube on the valve so no spillage at all, pumped up to 40psi and there was some air round the valve escaping. A quick swirl of the tyre and it's sealed and now holding pressure at 37psi.
Repeat for the rear, only this time I needed tyre levers to get the DD Minion SS off the rear, it's a tough beast! Otherwise exactly the same. Seated first time, zero issues.
Don't know what all the fuss is about!! 🙂
I now have a nice fat 2.5WT minion ready for riding tomorrow and some grip at the rear for when I hit some mud.
[url= https://farm1.staticflickr.com/948/41848929712_7ed1a97b77_b.jp g" target="_blank">https://farm1.staticflickr.com/948/41848929712_7ed1a97b77_b.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/26L3GNU ]IMG_20180504_195923[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallpaul_s/ ]Paul Sims[/url], on Flickr
37 psi? Drop that down some more pal.
First time I ever did it I got it up first time with a track pump. Spesh tyres on stans.
Every other time, in the following 5 years its been a nightmare.. Even with a airshot.. Don't be lulled into thinking its easy!
Yeah I know, I'm just keeping the pressures high overnight to makes sure they're seated properly and not loosing any air, will check again in the morning and adjust down to normal psi.
I was running 30psi rear 28psi front with the tubes, will probably go to 25 rear 22 front and see how it feels.
I've never found it difficult either, and just with a track pump. Tyres hold pressure amazingly, only need a couple of puffs of air even if I leave them for weeks between rides.
Lucky you. I've just retaped a set of specialized cx tyres on some wtb frequency i19 rims for the second time and they are still leaking! Also replaced the value and having to resort to zip ties to seat the bead. This pairing is an arse (worst ones I've ever done by a country mile).
There is some luck is having the right combination. I just changed to tubeless on my fixed gear bike last night as now have frame that takes wider tyres. Was just as easy as installing a tyre with a tube.
42c Sawtooth's on a Mavic xc 421 rim. Put on tyre, inflated with track pump and had air slowly coming out of valve. Put sealant in through valve pumped up and no leaks. Rode around block and put bike away. Checked this morning and both tyres at same pressure as when left last night.
The only time I have had any problems were when using a conversion kit on non-tubeless rim and tyre and when running Continental protections which took about 4 weeks to completely become air tight so had to pump up before every ride.
As Kerley says a lot is luck. I have had no problems yet with MTB tyres but the current road tyres (Schwalbe Ones) the front went up with a track pump, the rear needed 2 goes with an airshot to seat. This is on Zonda 2 way rims.
Jammy sod:-)
i think you’ve missed out on the rite of passage of having one spraying spunk all over the kitchen/living room.
i think you’ve missed out on the rite of passage of having one spraying spunk all over the kitchen/living room.
you seemed to have posted in the wrong thread 🤔
Nah using STW colloquialism.
Ride them a couple hundred kms, then take them off, then try that process again and see how you get on 😉
New Maxxis tyres on well taped modern rims do tend to go up easily first time...
It's really easy except when it's not. I've had them go straight up with a track pump, and wasted four or five CO2 on others.
However these days with tubeless ready tyres and the proper strips it's far easier. Also, I've never had one explode. This is surely a myth.
It's either ten minutes or a week of faff for me.
Don’t know what all the fuss is about!!
I had the same experience on my first attempt. The second attempt however...
The newer tubeless-ready tyres which are now available tend to be a lot easier to mount, at least in my experience.
In the olden days it was a bit more hit-and-miss.
Checked the tyres this morning and the rear had only lost 2psi, the front none so looks like it's all good.
Set the pressures at 25 and 23psi, I'm expecting it to feel massively draggy on the road going from a minion Ss at the rear to a DHF and 30psi to 25 🙂 there's less than 2 miles of road before I'm onto some singletrack though.