Questions tagged [tubeless]
Tubeless tyres do not require an innertube.
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Do I need to Replace this Tire if Switching Back to Tubes?
I am new to cycling and asked the local bike shop to set up my bike tubeless.
It's a second hand scott speedster. My rear tire had a puncture that I never noticed when riding with tubes, but ...
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What's the difference between more or less expensive carbon wheels?
I've got a gravel bike, and since I sometimes take it on road rides, I am thinking about getting a set of carbon wheels with road tires to swap out with the knobby tires I already have which work ...
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What could cause my tubeless tire (700x25) to leak air at nominal pressure?
I have a road bike with tubeless tires (700x25) and I have noticed for a couple of rides now that by the end of the ride I lost quite a bit of pressure.
To check out what is going on, I re-inflated to ...
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Panaracer Gravelking SK Tubeless Blowout on WTB i21
I just got 2 new Panaracer Gravelking SK tires and mounted them tubeless on WTB i21 rims with the correct width rim tape from WTB. I inflated them to 60psi to set the bead and the rear blew off the ...
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Why tubeless tires without tubeless approval
There are tubless ready tires out there (as the Chinook Pass) that are not approved for tubeless use but still have the label "tubeless ready"
For this specific tire I found that out since I ...
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How Can I Get A Troublesome Tubeless Tire to Inflate and Seat on the Bead?
I have been using tubeless for about five years now (mostly road, but also gravel and MTB) and between working on my bikes and my friends' bikes as well. I can usually get tubeless tires seated and ...
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What Causes Tubeless Road Tires to Blister?
Road tubeless setup, and have been happy with it for several years. In the past year I have had a couple of my tires blister either on the centerline of the tread or just slightly off it. In one case ...
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Bubbles in carcass/ casing of Schwalbe Pro One TLE
I noticed two small bubbles on the carcass of my rear tire.
I am running the 32mm Schwalbe Pro One tubeless at around 4bar /60psi and it wasn't particulary hot when the bubbles appeared (~20°C). The ...
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Should I be worried about small cuts on a tubeless tire/tyre?
My tubeless tires/tyres have a few cuts around the tread pattern. They are each around 3–4mm in length. I've been proactive with topping up sealant and have not had any flats since riding with these ...
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Tubeless setup losing air through ONE exactly spoke hole
I've read all questions found by my keywords, but didn't find and answer.
I have a gravel with Triban tubeless ready rims and Hutchinson Overide tubeles ready tires. They already had a rim tape setup. ...
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Centering tubeless tire
Mounting 700Cx35mm tubeless road tires on 25mm carbon wheels. Tires will NOT go center; always wobble, sometimes 2mm sometimes 10mm. Unmount, soapy water, remount, beads pop and... still not straight. ...
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Tubeless holding high psi, leaking at rim/bead during low pressure
I am going tubeless! Using tubless ready rims and tires with a floor pump. The front one went on no problem. The rear one has seated, heard pinging, and holds air dry, up to 40 psi. When I add sealant ...
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Swapping tubeless tyres as a practice
Have a Grizl with the DT Swiss G1800 wheels. Want to run burlier tyres like the Continental's Race Kings (2.0) and have the original G-Bites (45mm) in reserve for some bikepacking. Both to be run ...
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Can punctured tires be made tubeless?
I have tubeless-ready tires and tubeless-ready wheels but a non-tubeless setup. I've had two punctures on each wheel and am tired of having to change inner-tubes, so I am considering converting to ...
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How to prevent a Presta valve core from unscrewing when disconnecting a pump [duplicate]
My mini-pump has a screw-on head (as I guess most of them do) and several times when removing the pump from the valve, it's taken the valve core out with it.
The last time this happened to me on the ...
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