I use inner tubes on all my road bikes: Here's why I still haven't embraced tubeless
I test bikes for a living, here's why I don't like tubeless tyres
He kinda touches on this in the article but I always felt tubeless was more for off-road applications anyway. Personnally I have a few bikes and my enduro bike is the only one with a tubeless setup
Sorry, but tubes are significantly better for off-road performance. What do you off-road?
Edit: I can't really say why I wrote this comment like this. Very aggressive. Sorry again.
My enduro mountain bike. We are talking about bicycles in this discussion, are we not? I suppose I can't speak to anyones experience but my own but I used to get a lot more flats on tubed setups. Now the only time I get a flat is when I've broken a wheel
I'd only meant in my own experience. Sorry about that. I definitely wrote that comment as an asshole.
What pressures do you run in your tubeless setup?
Any specific rims or style you'd recommend?
I usually run around 35psi (2.41 BAR) front and rear but I'm also kind of a giant who destroys rear wheels too often.
Currently on a Spank Race 33 rim and Vittoria Syerra's for tires. The Syerra's are really cool. They have really good rolling resistance. They aren't the best in cornering grip but I find its really easy to ride them on the 'edge' of their grip if that makes sense. I also run cores in an attempt to prevent breaking more wheels
Here's the bike if you're curious:
Pinch flats are way more likely when running low tire pressure off road. That does not happen with tubeless setups.
Yeah sorry, I'd meant that -in my experience.
I'd had issues with loss of air on hard turns or losing the bead more often. I wonder if the model of rim was poorly designed.
Tire dependent. I run specialized grid trail tires on my mtb, at 18psi front, 24 rear. Never had a pinch in thousands of miles.
However - for one cycle, I switched to a set of bontrager tires - I think they were SE5s - at the recommendation of the shop when they were out of what I normally buy. I was running a bit higher, more like 22/28, and I pinched a tire within 50 miles. They replaced it for free without me even asking which makes me suspect it wasn't uncommon. I ran them at 30/35 after that, but that much pressure on my local trails, loose desert gravel, and they weren't great for traction at all.
Replaced them way before they were worn out, back to the specialized, and I have an extra 2-4 tires in my parts pile for the next time. The casing is just a lot tougher. I know bontrager has heavier casings in other tires, but I'm sticking with what has worked.
And now that I've said all that, I'm gonna get a pinch the next time I go out and it's gonna be your fault ;)