My first experience of putting on tubeless tyres was painful and slow.
I'm using soapy water to put the tyres on but remembered seeing something
advertised when I bought my tyres that I thought was overkill.
It's some sort of lubricant - can anyone help with a brand name?
Mountain Bikes · Public discussion
Tubeless Tyre Help
Thread navigation
Jump through the discussion
Go to the original post, the replies on this page, or the latest preserved contribution.
Thread details
What we know about this thread
- Original section
- Mountain Bikes
- Published
- 3 November 2004
- Last activity
- 6 November 2004
- Original author
- Edward Holt
- Posts
- 7
- Discussion status
- Public discussion
- Total views
- 388
- Views / 30 days
- 0
The navigation and discussion metadata provide context. Posts remain in their original chronological order.
-
-
"Edward Holt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:
My first experience of putting on tubeless tyres was painful and slow.
I'm using soapy water to put the tyres on but remembered seeing something
advertised when I bought my tyres that I thought was overkill.
It's some sort of lubricant - can anyone help with a brand name?This may help,,,,,,,,,,
--
DTW .../\.../\.../\...I've spent most of my money on mountain biking and windsurfing.
The rest I've just wasted. -
Edward Holt says...
Quoted message said:
My first experience of putting on tubeless tyres was painful and slow.
I'm using soapy water to put the tyres on but remembered seeing something
advertised when I bought my tyres that I thought was overkill.
It's some sort of lubricant - can anyone help with a brand name?It isn't clear where you are having problems. If it is in mounting the
tires, I doubt that you really need anything but better technique. The
trick is that the bead has to be in the center valley of the rim as much
as possible. Oh, and don't use tire levers either. They can damage the
bead where it needs to seal. If you mean getting the bead to seat after
the tire is mounted, an air compressor is the only thing that has worked
for me. Soapy water on the bead helps with that. -
"D T W .../\\..." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<Eldid.128$ii1.103@trndny04>...
Quoted message said:
"Edward Holt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:
My first experience of putting on tubeless tyres was painful and slow.
I'm using soapy water to put the tyres on but remembered seeing something
advertised when I bought my tyres that I thought was overkill.
It's some sort of lubricant - can anyone help with a brand name?This may help,,,,,,,,,,
I second the Stan's suggestion. In the past, I have successfully
patched tubeless tires with a regular tube patch. Also made a
non-tubless tire tubeless with tubeless slime...Nate
-
I'm just beginning to look into tubeless myself, and found these sites which
might be of some help to you in mounting the tires and protecting against
punctures:http://www.mavic.com/servlet/srt/mavic/cros-tech?lg=uk
http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/tubeless_tire/product_122417.shtml
Timo
"Edward Holt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:
My first experience of putting on tubeless tyres was painful and slow.
I'm using soapy water to put the tyres on but remembered seeing something
advertised when I bought my tyres that I thought was overkill.
It's some sort of lubricant - can anyone help with a brand name? -
"Nate" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:
"D T W .../\\..." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:<Eldid.128$ii1.103@trndny04>...Quoted message said:
"Edward Holt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:
My first experience of putting on tubeless tyres was painful and slow.
I'm using soapy water to put the tyres on but remembered seeing
something
advertised when I bought my tyres that I thought was overkill.
It's some sort of lubricant - can anyone help with a brand name?This may help,,,,,,,,,,
I second the Stan's suggestion. In the past, I have successfully
patched tubeless tires with a regular tube patch. Also made a
non-tubless tire tubeless with tubeless slime...Nate
I've no problem with patching - just got a problem getting the tire onto the
wheel. -
"Edward Holt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:
"Nate" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:
"D T W .../\\..." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:<Eldid.128$ii1.103@trndny04>...Quoted message said:
"Edward Holt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
> My first experience of putting on tubeless tyres was painful and slow.
> I'm using soapy water to put the tyres on but remembered seeing
> something
> advertised when I bought my tyres that I thought was overkill.
> It's some sort of lubricant - can anyone help with a brand name?This may help,,,,,,,,,,
I second the Stan's suggestion. In the past, I have successfully
patched tubeless tires with a regular tube patch. Also made a
non-tubless tire tubeless with tubeless slime...Nate
I've no problem with patching - just got a problem getting the tire onto the
wheel.I have a pair or two of tubeless that are extremely hard to get on the
rim. I also have others that go on fairly easily. Like some others
have said, soapy water helps. I even used to use PJ-1 motorcycle
chain lube on the bead to help mount and seat the bead of some tires.
(it went on slimy, then got very tacky over an hour or two) It gets
old throwing the tires in the tub and giving them a wash to get the
old PJ-1 off, so I quit using it. It did work well for me though...Nate
Active in the last 60 minutes
Active in this thread
0 users · 0 guests ·0 bots ·0 total
No signed-in users are active right now.
No known search crawlers active right now.