Patrick wilder

I've been using the new Stans's tubless kit with the Hutchinson Tubeless Road tires. The ride quality is amazing. Specifically I like to ride some gravel roads and rough roads, so it seems to work quite well there. Quite a few people used this with success at the Eugene Roubaix and did not flat.

The kit is: Stans yellow strip, stans goop, Valve and the Hutchinson Tubeless Road Tires.


Ok so here's the bad with the good. I was heading out HW 30 Wednesday (can you honestly think of a worse stretch of road in Oregon to test tyres). I heard a click, click, click and looked down right as I heard BOOM!!!! Instantly I'm on the rim pissing myself.

I picked up a huge staple of some sort. Concerning to me was that the when the tyre blew it blew off the rim. The other concern was that when I put a tube in the bead had been broken and eventually it blew out and I was calling the broom wagon.

The debate is still out whether it was the force of blowing off the rim that broke the bead or if the staple went in sideways and weakened the bead and when I put the tube and pumped it up it finished off the bead.

With all this said, I'm not sure this being tubeless had anything to do with it. A clincher with a tube could have just as easily done the samething. Prior to that for a month I had gone with no flats and great ride quality.

Ride safe

will wrote:
Has anyone in OBRA-land tried the ghetto-tubeless system yet? If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's basically using a 20" tube and cutting it in half to replace a Stans rim strip (or comparable one) and going from there.

I'd love to know if you've tried it and how it's holding out (i.e. is it holding air well? what's the seal like?...)
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