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Against advice given on here I tried to make my a119 wheels tubeless the other day.
I should have listened to the advice I was given!
Tried with Joe’s rim strips, duct tape, a 20” tube and pretty much every conceivable combination thereof.
Think the most frustrating thing was that I got the tyre to seat once with no sealant in it but once I took the bread off and poured sealant in it just wouldn’t go back on!
Wanted to convert the wheels I have as there’s nothing (other than not being tubeless) wrong with them and they are silver rims and finding silver tubeless rims is proving somewhat tricky.
There’s velocity a23s but qc seems to be an issue with velocity recently. Cycle clinic have some Ryde Edge R13 but only 1 32h in stock. Similarly they have an Ambrosio rim in silver but only 1 28h and some 20h in stock. Think 20 would be pushing it for gravel riding.
TLDR: if someone tells you not to bother trying to bodge your wheels tubeless, listen to em.