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In order to increase 'reliability' and reduce hassle factor, I am doing all I can to reduce risk of failure on the workhorse Levo hardtail of the family.
I don't like having to deal with punctures so thinking of the Vittoria Air Liner inserts to assist in this regard.
Any experiences of said Vittoria liners?
Thanks.
I have the XC ones and they've been brilliant so far. I can use light tyres and at my prefered pressure without squirming about and so for the protection of the side walls has been perfect
I have them on two sets of cyclocross wheels - been great. V easy to work with, although that will likely depend on your rim / tyre choice. I've changed one puncture (water bar impact that wrote off the tyre) on the trail no bother.
Not sure on bigger MTB wheels - I just fitted some rimpacts as they seem to get the best reviews. Too early for me to say how they hold up but they're generally well rated.
I have them in a 2.4 dhrII and I would not fancy removing them on the trail in event of an unpluggable puncture, fit is way tighter. Could be done but it would take tubeless ninja hands.
For run flat use I prefer them to rimpacts. I think because rimpacts are quite low to the rim tires tend to fold over on themselves whereas airliners hold them closer to a normal shape.
my mum runs them (road and gravel variants) and doesn’t bother to fix punctures, just tootles slowly home.
I bought a set of mtb ones based on the review on here. I've not had any rim damage in the nearly 2 years since I've fitted them, or taken a tyre off the rim at low pressure which I'd done a couple of times before. I'm ~120kg so they get worked hard. After getting annoyed with punctures on my gravel bike I converted that to tubeless and installed a set in there too. Other than an initial struggle to get them to seal, and a chance to test their runflat capabilities (it's possible but hard work), they're now behaving.
Got one in the rear of my HT. Not used other inserts so not got much to compare to, bit I've been happy with how they've performed. Definitely saved my rim when I've hit things on the trail at a less than optimal angle!
Used them on my gravel bike for years, no issues other than it does make the tyres bastard hard to get off the rim - but maybe that is down to my rims and tyres...?
And one of the first things I did with my new MTB was convert it to tubeless with the XC lightweight version of the liners. All good so far.
The ones in the gravel bike proved their worth once, was able to ride the (admittedly fairly short) distance home on a flat tyre no problems.