Has anybody tried mounting a regular tire on a Mavic X3.1 UST disc rim? I haven't been able to find a studded tire for USt so I'd like to mount my current Nokian Extremes on this wheel I'm about to build. All the other UST rims from Mavic are clearly stated as ETRTO compatible except these. Including X3.1 UST for Vbrakes and DX3.1 UST disc for downhill. ETRTO means that you can mount either a UST or normal tire on the rim. Mind you not just a tube in a UST tire but the whole tube and tire. I don't know what you call them in English actually. In Swedish directly translated it would be "Edgethreaded" tires. Meaning a thread is running all the way around either edge 😉
It would be interesting to use a stan's no tube rim strip with the nokian extremes or WXC300's on mavic ust 3.1 rims... WITHOUT the tube. notubes.comustrimstrip.htmOpen ↗
Although I've never tried it... I would think that one could put any standard tire/tube on a UST rim and it would work just fine.
charlie
Per Elmsäter said:
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Has anybody tried mounting a regular tire on a Mavic X3.1 UST disc rim? I haven't been able to find a studded tire for USt so I'd like to mount my current Nokian Extremes on this wheel I'm about to build. All the other UST rims from Mavic are clearly stated as ETRTO compatible except these. Including X3.1 UST for Vbrakes and DX3.1 UST disc for downhill. ETRTO means that you can mount either a UST or normal tire on the rim. Mind you not just a tube in a UST tire but the whole tube and tire. I don't know what you call them in English actually. In Swedish directly translated it would be "Edgethreaded" tires. Meaning a thread is running all the way around either edge 😉
It would be interesting to use a stan's no tube rim strip with the nokian extremes or WXC300's on mavic ust 3.1 rims... WITHOUT the tube. notubes.comustrimstrip.htmOpen ↗
Although I've never tried it... I would think that one could put any standard tire/tube on a UST rim and it would work just fine.
Very interesting. The thought had already occured to me.I will give it a try for sure. It seems according to Mavic that my rims are certified. The reason it says nowhere is because they weren't certified from the beginning. -- Perre
Ahhhh barry.. put those nokians on Snowcats to take full advantage of those great tires. .. rims are 44mm wide. gives a much larger contact patch and with more verticle sidewalls, less opportunity to pinch flat. charlie
B a r r y B u r k e J r . said:
It does. I've done it with Crossmax wheels, and plan on doing it again with studded Nokian this winter.
barry simon of AWS ( all weather sports), invented and build/sold snowcat rims... recently he went out of business... but you can be a local distributor/retailer .. see this web page:
barry simon of AWS ( all weather sports), invented and build/sold snowcat rims... recently he went out of business... but you can be a local distributor/retailer .. see this web page:
I looked them up yesterday in a program called "Bike-A-Log" we have at the shop. I was trying to find out if any of our regular suppliers, like QBP carried them. It seems as if he always sold direct.
