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No! Just used their yellow rim tape and valves for £25 -

Rim Tape
Valves

If the tyre don't seat properly, add another layer of tape to force the bead into the bead hook on rim side wall.

Superstar components do cheaper tubeless stuff

Forgot about them, think I might be using their valves actually.

As shown in this vid?

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/tech-tuesday-tubeless-conversion-2010.html

Running tubeless- been doing some reading and what crops up time and again is "didn't seal until I used a compressor", does this fit with most peoples experience?

I bought the Stans kit and was able to fill a Marathon Supreme on a Rhynolite rim with no problem, but I paid very close attention to the instructions. I've since changed back to regular tubes, too much topping up every few days.

Cute owl :-)

Fire always makes things better. Stans rim strips seem expensive for what appears to be half an inner tube.

just use a standard tube

http://vimeo.com/1086409

Last week I acquired a rather nice 90's weightwiener seatpost by FRM with the most simple and effective clamp I've ever seen.

Contrary to the ebay listing, it turned out to be 27.0 rather than 27.2 so I was forced to get the bob jackson out of storage and rebuild it.
Saddle and seatpost weigh in at a svelte 305g on the kitchen scales

And even with the monstrously lardy front wheel the whole biek comes in well under 7kg! It goes like stink too, thanks largely to the 52x17 gearing... I'd forgotten what a nice bike it is - big grins into freezy breezes yesterday - more headwinds to come today no doubt!!

it's coming...

Looks light!

it's ethereal

Last week I acquired a rather nice 90's weightwiener seatpost by FRM with the most simple and effective clamp I've ever seen.

Please please please make it super safe just to annoy a Saffa.

but where's the chrome??

Well, Croix de Silver doesn't have the same ring to it ;)

croix d'alloy?

croix de bling?

The translation being "Iron Cross" or I guess "Cross of Iron" (my french is appalling) I was aiming for something similar. "Cross of Chrome" sorta sounded neat. "Croix de Argent" maybe?

Last week I acquired a rather nice 90's weightwiener seatpost by FRM with the most simple and effective clamp I've ever seen.

Love it. If you ever move that on (and the stripped Flite as well), I'll have first dibs.

croix de bling?

la cruz de la swagga?

Still cold as fuck here in Amsterdam, but dry-ish. So no more need for winter accessories on my main bike.

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4715/img1010vz.jpg

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6531/img1012d.jpg

Yes, need new tape. Fizik Soft Touch?

Some more photo's here.

Love it. If you ever move that on (and the stripped Flite as well), I'll have first dibs.

Noted!

FRM adjustment is great, it's a single screw to clamp rails, and you slacken it off & set saddle angle with a grub screw, then clamp it up again.
(None of the usual faffing around with 2 inaccessible screws!)

Croix de Argent

Croix d'Argent, s'il vous plaît, c'est une élision!

Croix d'Argent, s'il vous plaît, c'est une élision!

(my french is appalling)

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#scbled

As shown in this vid?

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/tech-tuesday-tubeless-conversion-2010.html

Yeah that's the stuff Dammit.

just use a standard tube

How To go tubeless on Vimeo

Heard that works pretty well too, but as you'll still need rim tape, it's half an inner tube heavier! ;)

Laner, can't see...