Goatheads: YES. No goatheads: tubes NO, tubeless probably. Sealant is wonderful and something you really don't want to avoid if you live in goathead country, since it lets you ride wonderful light and supple tires that, without sealant, would get literally a thorn flat every 2-5 miles. As I've repeated endlessly, Orange Seal regular in tubes (Endurance does not work, but the Regular does not dry into a lump as Stan's did back circa 2014), and OS Endurance tubeless (does not dry into lumps; dries instead into a skin on the inside of the casing, tho' if you open up a tire where the sealant is only half-dried, you'll find sticky strings and membranes stretching throughout the casing).
BUT!!! Were it not for goatheads, and were I riding in evironments where flats were rare, say no more than 1 a week for all bikes (yep, that's rare for me; I'd be happy to fix 1 flat per week), I'd not bother with it for tubes; easy enough to patch tubes or swap in a spare and patch the flatted one at home. And, sealant, for all its benefits, is still a hassle and messy compared to no sealant. For well-designed tubeless tires set up tubeless on well-designed tubeless rims, like Big Ones on Blunt SS's, I might still use sealant, and carry plugs for bigger holes, since the resulting minor hassle and occasional mess is little more annoying than 1 flat per week, and if you can avoid a 250 gram tube, why not? (Esp when tires are only 450 grams.) -- 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/CALuTfgv4sTFqfLgADR-T4WWmprxYLhCyYuQ0xu3PWkhnztBeWg%40mail.gmail.com.
