piero
Reged: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3
Loc: Suffolk
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Cmapag and Shimano are producing tubeless wheels, with Campag claiming to have found a 30% improvement in rolling resistance for tubeless tyres.
As yet, I've only seen Hutchinson offer a 23mm tubeless tyre. Has anyone tried these on the road? How soon before all other wheel snd tyre manufacturers go tubeless?
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Smokin_Joe
Reged: 09/06/2006
Posts: 2143
Loc: Fishguard
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The sooner the better. Car and motorcycle manufacturers have been using tubless tyres for decades, cycles are way behind the times in this area. It should be easy enough to produce a permenant repair tyre plug for when the inevitable happens.
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andrewj100
Reged: 08/08/2007
Posts: 526
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Smokin_Joe - like this?
http://www.totalcycling.com/index.php/pr...repair_set.html
They don't even bother to plug them, just pop a patch on the inside of the tyre over the hole, just the same as fixing an inner tube.
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Smokin_Joe
Reged: 09/06/2006
Posts: 2143
Loc: Fishguard
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That would seal it for me (pardon the pun).
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newhero
Reged: 23/09/2008
Posts: 253
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My only concern with tubulars is how do you get enough air into a flat tyre quickly enough to get it to seal against the rim? Like a car tyre you cant use a normal pump from flat as it just leaks around the edge of the rim.
Will this mean we will have to carry air cylinders all the time?
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scm
Reged: 24/06/2006
Posts: 1735
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My only concern with tubulars is how do you get enough air into a flat tyre quickly enough to get it to seal against the rim?
Not tubulars, tubeless. Tubulars have a tube.
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 3653
Loc: Sticks ,Scotlandshire
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My only concern with tubulars is how do you get enough air into a flat tyre quickly enough to get it to seal against the rim?
I know you mean tubeless..The best way to inflate them without a track pump would be to carry the co2 cylinders..they will inflate fast enough.
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piero
Reged: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3
Loc: Suffolk
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It looks like RCUK will soon be doing a full review of road tubeless after their 'first ride'.
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