Thank you for this conversation. Tube or tubeless ....that has been my question! (IMHO) there’s gonna be infrastructure one way or the other. w tubeless for me i was intimidated due to the learning curve.
But I do like learning and once I got through some of that, tubeless isn’t any more complicated than learning how to patch, etc. It’s just different. I have bikes running both. The thing with tubeless is that IF I get a flat I feel like it’s gonna be more trouble (maybe due to inexperience. ) Yet I don’t get flats with tubeless- (I know it can happen, just that I haven’t yet in a year or more ). I have lost a lot of air a few times, so that my tubeless go squishy. (I learned the old frame pump won’t inflate enough. Now I have a lezyne pump I bring w.) With the tube tires and where I ride, I am flat or slowly leaking - at least once a month. So there’s gonna be a flat, but I know how to fix it. It’s easier and I‘m ready. I just have to do so way more often. What i have to be prepped for with tubes is the probability that I need to be. There’s hardly ever flats with tubeless - so it’s the differential in the maintenance reality of the two systems that I think about. (W tubeless I fill up w stans no-flow whenever the tubeless won’t hold their air overnight. I have the m12 makita portable mini compressor. It’s smaller than a 6pack. I use it for the cars and wheelbarrow tires too. But I don’t Re-fill my tubeless that much more often than my tube tires. ) kim in az On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:43 AM Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: > See Ken, this is where I just can't get into tubeless. I've owned a couple > bikes that cake to me that way, which was dandy because they were already > seated and pumped up; but then I needed sealant, a tool to unscrew the > valve to add sealant, and tire plugs. Ok so what do I take as tire repair > stuff? Whelp, I guess I could take all this in case I need it, plus a tube > and tire levers if the trick to getting home after a puncture is to pop a > tube in there. Then when it's time to seat a tire I'm going to need a > machine because my very good Topeak floor pump isn't good enough, or I'm > not good enough at pumping. > > So I get the advantages in ride, lightness and puncture resistance of > tubeless, but for a Luddite like me who does all his own work all I see is > more stuff and more work. I'm not into it. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c225373a-e583-4868-9e70-8b4a88ffb960%40googlegroups.com > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAG55tTY15oT-mirsB0vKe%3D-RVO4yqSjv16R8OtQTNwnGFYcE6A%40mail.gmail.com.
