I'm deliberately asking for help in the Dummies thread, hopfully this relates to me not to the tubeless cognoscenti.
I have scanned the first 10 pages or so of the thread, then life intervened.....
Anyway, I have a commute over French forest trails and cyclepaths - 12km of which 95% is paved.
With all the recent storms and downpours, the paths are covered in various sorts of arborial debris and thorns. Also the unpaved bits are becoming definitely flinty.
I had my first p* on this route last Friday on the way home, just a small hole from maybe a thorn in the tube, no visible evidence on the tyre.
Seems like a good case for tubeless, especially as I will be commuting over this route for at least another year.
Bike is a hybrid/ The wheels are currently Deore disk hubs, Alex XD-Lite rims (17.5mm inner width) and Conti Contact 32mm wired tyres (pre Contact 2) from 2009 but almost unused.
The wheels are perfect for the route, but what are my options to go tubeless?
My own thoughts are:
- a tubeless conversion of the wheels using a Stans kit
- new tubeless ready tyres (maybe Hutschison Sector 32s?)
- is there anything bigger than 32 that would be worth consdering
One downside I see on conversion is that the rims are pinned but being in good nick should be OK.
Do I really need to replace the tyres?
Many thanks.