Follow the rim/wheel manufacturers guidelines for tape and valve selection. You might need a shop's help to seat the beads if you don't have an air compressor. If you don't often ride the bike, give the wheels a spin every week or two to keep the sealant from pooling and creating a heavy spot in the tire. Sealant needs topping off maybe 1-3 times a year, depending on heat (speeds evaporation) and use. (sealing a puncture depletes your sealant level, naturally) Invest in a sealant injector and valve core tool. It's much simpler to add sealant through the valve than breaking the bead to add juice, then having to re-seat in my opinion and experience.
I was a late adopter of tubeless, but it's fantastic. I've seen it work on my bike and on others many times and it never gets old! I only have two bikes out of six that still have tubes, both older road bikes. Good luck, Steve On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 6:37:44 PM UTC-5, Drw wrote: > > The bike I ride 85% of the time these days is my roscoe bubbe mtn step > thru with a crust Clydesdale fork and a kid seat on the back. So 85% of the > time I am mostly riding to run errands and go the beach. > > I also have an Atlantis that gets ridden the other 15% of the time. Sad, I > know. Hopefully that will change as the kid gets a little older. The > Atlantis gets taken out for overnights and longer more purposeful rides > when I can squeeze them in. > > I’m interested in going tubeless on the Atlantis, since it’s already set > up with tubeless ready rims/tires and does more off road stuff. > > My question is...if a bike gets ridden once a month, is tubeless too hard > to maintain? Would I be starting the process fresh every time with sealant > drying etc? > > Also, if I was gonna go tubeless in this scenario, how would you recommend > I get started? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
