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well the roads of Kent are shite and I'll be rocking mudguards from day one so the stories of gunk leaking and getting everywhere wont be such an issue... out of habit I'd always carry a tube anyway and I understand that a last resort with tubeless is to put a tube in... I guess the pain of a puncture knowing that your tyre is also full of slop is an even shitter feeling that just switching out a tube anyway... we'll see, need the wheels built first!
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Lol! But also :-(
Yeah, I didn't puncture very often before tubeless but running 30c it made sense. I'm now on 25 but tubeless seemed like the right way to go. I'd happily run some really nice high thread count supple clinchers with latex tubes and in fact, I'm still considering it for my Seven. But I remember the feeling of getting a puncture and just being so annoyed. I don't miss that feeling at all. There's lots of crap roads up in the mountains in Los Angeles, too, where rockfalls happen and whatnot. That's where I think tubeless can really come into it's own...