Tubeless Tyres -"saying the same things about tubeless tyres over and over again" Hippy read the first f**king post

What kind of shitty warranty service makes you send back a faulty tire and pay for it? A photo of the fault and your receipt should be enough for them to give you your money back or send you a new one. I guarantee the retailer won't be sending the tire back to the factory...

Friends don't let friends ride Gravel Kings

The thing with tubeless is...

My wife is on her second set, slicks and then slick + that I put on for a tour. Both 32mm and set up tubeless since day one. Never had an issue with them. She doesn't ride aggresively on that bike, but I've only ever found one glass cut, which hasn't penetrated the casing and is still holding after a few months.

I've seen so many trashed round here but then Kent/Surrey borders has its fair share of flints

The thing with tubeless is...

(I'll bite)

Is that they puncture less than tubes. I can't remember the last time I punctured my CX or MTBs and my dented rims show that I don't exactly take it easy. You do have to stay away from the lightweight fragile tyres but that applies to tubed too.

What kind of shitty warranty service makes you send back a faulty tire and pay for it?

Merlin Cycles.

We are sorry but we are unable to refund postage costs.

"unable"

"unable"

Yeah, autocorrect can he tricky. I'm sure they meant to write "unwilling", as in "we are unwilling to abide by the law" If a seller wants faulty goods back, they must collect them at their own expense or reimburse your reasonable shipping expenses.

I've only ever found one glass cut

I can only assume she has only once ridden within a metre of a glass molecule

Don't they technically puncture the same amount, they just lose less air.

:P

Pressure fittings? LOL. It's just a couple of valves cut out of tubes, maybe with some plumbing tape around them to keep a better seal. With this you only need 2-3 bar to get the tyre to pop onto the rim. I've not tested max pressure but the hose will normally pop off before anything else happens.

There’s a spooky buffet restaurant around the corner from me that was recently raided by the council for multiple food hygiene violations.

One of the photos in the local rag article about it was of a tub of a substance which the owner tried to pass off as ‘crab’, but was actually found to be rotting chicken breast.

I'd say my photos of the inside-out tyre give off more of a "cow tongue" vibe

Don’t want to know what kind of cows you’ve been getting licked by m8...

Not really, as they are run at lower pressures things are less likely to actually puncture. And when a puncture occurs there is sealant to address this.

Newly fitted 2nd hand g one all rounds. Went up pretty easy, lost a bit of air overnight, but seemed ok after a top up and a bit of spinning around. Took them out for a test ride. All fine up until about mile 15 when I was pootling along on the flat, on road, and the front tyre randomly burps sealant. I thought a bird had shat on me at first and then I clocked how pink it was. Didn’t think much of it, until around mile 25 when I’m going downhill - again, on flat, on road - at about 35mph and it happens again, twice in quick succession. Shat myself at that point, slowed right the fuck down, was almost home anyway.

Definitely not normal, but can I chalk it off as just a bit weird or do I regard it as sinister and likely to lead to fiery burning death?

Would give me the heebie jeebies that.

I know it's awfy simple but did you pump them right up on first fitting to max psi? Get some pings?

Perhaps a rim width compatibility issue? Although I'm not sure the G One range has very stringent guidelines on that having ridden them.

Which rims?

Whoa wtf that should not be happening! Were they easy to go on (as in maybe a bit loose)? I'd pump them right up and look for anywhere along the rim not nice and flush, any swerve in the line of the tyre, make sure lots of pings as it seats in case it's that/.

But I would be very worried that happening on a downhill, and if you don't find something wrong to explain it i'll send you your money back

how much sealant, and is it dumping a bit of pressure at the same time ? could just be the bead pinging into place if they didnt do that as Stoo61 describes, but this would only flick out a v tiny bit of sealant.

I concur on the heebie jeebies. I did have a pair of G-One Ultrabites burst off the rim a while back. Oddly, both on the front wheel and miraculously both while I wasn't riding. I'm still a fairly die-hard schwalbe user as this has really been the only time, but it was pretty scary. The bead actually snapped on them, was nuts. /csb

Small sample size but last time I rode MTB in the alps with mates, the only people who had issues with tyres burping were the Schwalbe tubeless people. That said, it wasn't JRA, it was usually cornering quite quickly.

Does sound like maybe the bead isn't seated somewhere

MTB pressures and directional forces are a different game i reckon. its not really my area of expertise, and I've been running 1.5kg Dirt Wizards on the hardtail for some reason, so can't pass judgement on the schwalbe situation there!

There were a lot of satisfying pop pop pops on the way up, went up to about 75psi. Rims (hunt 4 season gravel @gbj_tester ) are internal width so shouldn’t be an issue there, I don’t think.

Wasn’t a huge amount of sealant each time, first time definitely a v small amount, second time difficult to tell seemed a bit more but I was going fast and a bit worried about dying.

Will give them another inflate and see if I can see anything around the rim. Here was me thinking “hah, for once I have installed tubelezz without issues”.

spin them slowly and eyeball the lines just above the bead, often you see a dip where the bead hasn’t completely gone into rim but at a glance looks o.k.
I have had tyres pump up to max psi for seating like this still hold air but thats without the added forces of riding the bike.
Had a Vitttoria that wouldn’t seat properly in one spot despite holding air but finally sorted with an airshot blast.
apologies if this is teaching you how to suck eggs.