I have to agree that my default would very definitely be tubes. Tubeless + sealant is an annoying mess, were it not for goatheads to make it all worthwhile. Where there are no such thorns, and where punctures are therefore hundreds of miles apart -- I'd happily patch 1 flat per week to avoid sealants -- I'd happily choose tubes, no sealants, and live with the consequences.
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 2:25 PM Nick Payne <njh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have used tubeless tyres with sealant on road bikes. However, where I > live these days I get few punctures, so there's not a great advantage to > using sealant. There is a decided disadvantage if you have a lot of bikes - > I have about a dozen that I alternate between - I'll ride one for a couple > of weeks, then hang it back on it's hook and pull down another one to ride > for a while, before moving onto a third, and so on. The trouble with using > tubeless tyres and sealant with that setup is that by the time I come back > to a bike to ride it again, any sealant in the tyres has mostly dried out > and solidified at the lowest part of the tyre, making the wheel quite > unbalanced, requiring me to dismount the tyre, clean out the solidified > sealant, then remount the tyre and add more sealant. > > So these days I've given up on tubeless... > > Nick > > -- > 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/a09964ee-568b-4358-a592-828e545588a6n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a09964ee-568b-4358-a592-828e545588a6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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/CALuTfgtmy_118dpQDyEs_jSd4pXMNx%2B5vm7%3DsaFQHOPxswZ_Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
