Which Tyres?

Dibs your used rubbers Amey

This probably works here too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9UqEU1C­4fA

That's what I meant

If anyone has G-ones in 35 they want to sell hit me up.

43c Gravel King SKs are pretty nice for £27, first ride was smoooooth

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how is it on tarmac? that will be 99% of my riding

The 40c version runs smoothly on tarmac. So the 43 shouldn't be much different.

Ok thats fine ill see to GKs then unless theres an alternative for bigger tyres

Yes they rolled nicely. As an extremely rough guess, maybe a couple mph slower for the same effort as a slick? Slower getting up to speed than a slick though, as expected.

Anyone have an idea if / when normal Gravelkings will be tubeless ready? They seem to have released the 650b in tubeless ready, but not 700c.

I use the normal Gravelking tubeless, works for me. (3000 km so far, no incident to declare)

I had a chat with a guy at the Panaracer booth at Eurobike last year, and he was telling me that although they are not labeled as tubeless-ready for liabity reasons, the sidewall construction of the Gravelking and the very tight bead tolerance made them rather suitable to a ghetto-tubeless conversion.

Not so keen on ghetto seeing as most of my riding is in the Alps, and descents can get pretty fast and fairly high consequence. What's the liability reason? Just the high pressures?

Yeah, high pressures and... something with temperature ?
On how the bead reacts if used with rim brakes. (in the scenario of tubeless carbon rims I think, but he didn't elaborate)
Didn't matter to me as use them with disc brakes.

Anyone seen any good deals for the Vittoria Corsa G+ 28c tanwalls? Best that I can find seems to be Evans at £37 apiece...

#boastpost

That's a good price.

Vanilla bikes have a 10% code for 50 quid spend so worth a look.

Haha, yeah sorry, it has it's downsides! Sometimes I just want a long flat ride with no climbing! Impossible round here!

I think I'll go for G-ones for now to avoid ghetto-ness!

Would love to know the detail on the setup.
tried them with kinlin tubeless ready Rim and priper tubeless tape. Wouldn't work even when doubling the tape.
Same rim and tape work flawlessly with pro ones.

My setup :
Rims: WTB Frequency Team i23.
Tape: ?? Tesa tape I think. Taped 2 times, one pass seems a bit thin.
I had them running with tubes for a while, I think it helps setting the tape properly (no more wrinkles or bubbles).
Tyres: Panaracer Gravelking 32mm. I never tried the tubeless setup with the smaller sizes.
Sealant: Schwalbe Doc Blue - approx. 50ml per tyre. Took around two days to seal properly.
Pressure: 60 psi rear / 55 psi front

I've run tests* before riding. Tyre jumps out of the rim around 80psi.

(* well not voluntarily the first time. But then I tried a few times to see at what pressure the explosion occured)

Do you have verniers? Can you measure? My 2015 CDF was very tight with 41 knards...

I do but won't be home until monday. If 41 was tight I think you might be better off with the 40c SKs

Little underwhelmed by the size of my 50-559 Marathon Supremes. Just put them on they measure 47 mm on a 25 mm inner rim. Hope they'll stretch a bit more

Pics of the balloon life ploz

Maybe, it looks pretty bad with mudguards set up for 2.2 inches of tyre :)