that's one thing that puts me off tubeless..Annoyingly, after recently saying it felt like my front wheel kept deflating and wondering if it was heat in the shed. I got up early this morning to go for a ride, got to the first corner, was going to go straight before last minute changing my mind to turn right and the tyre broke the seal and threw sealant everywhere. Sending me flying and being my first proper off on this bike and scraping my lever/deraileur
More annoying is that i took my air compressor to storage the other day ahead of another house move, so going to just drop it at a local shop and hope they'll sort it quickly and can pick it back up later tonight.
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Its very easy for people to say "haven't had a puncture in years with tubeless so whats the point". The point is that you wouldn't know if you had in many cases because its sealed them. Keep your tyres at the right pressure and tubeless is great. I run GP5000 S TR tyres and haven't had any issues for a few years. They aren't exactly a durable tyre and our roads are ****. I reckon the tubeless sealant has probably done its job a few times over that period.
Yeah. I still think Tubeless is worth it and wouldn’t go back even after this little issue.
Hopefully soon I can get better storage for the bikes without massive fluctuations in a metal shed with the sun turning it into an oven.
Hopefully soon I can get better storage for the bikes without massive fluctuations in a metal shed with the sun turning it into an oven.
The main thing for me was getting tyres to actually seat. I've never been able to get them to fit so pumping them up just pushed air out the sides. I think a compressor is needed for the blast of air. Hopefully i sort that when i next need to sort it.
In hindsight, the sealant in my back wheel is the same age and now i wish i'd dropped that wheel off too!
In hindsight, the sealant in my back wheel is the same age and now i wish i'd dropped that wheel off too!
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one of those fancy "blast" pumps is required but if you pump fast enough with a good track pump it can also work.. - never tried it tho, still just thinking about it.
Ah, but how much of that could be bike and wheels? Have to consider those also coming into the equation - then swapping tyres at £50 a pop suddenly seems less expensive!
Ahhh, with your talk I thought you where outside of the EU still! But a great price regardless.
Yeah the classic british 'Cycle2work' scheme (or similar) are still around in the UK, some resellers doing some bikes cheaper within it against certain vouchers, but the majority are usual shelf prices. Some even letting people use it against 'equipment' which can be classed as upgrades, others not. The benefit is the employer purchasing it and the employee basically paying it back over a time period using a percentage of their pre-tax wage. So the inventive is it being a tax break for employers out of their wage bills. But they have to be careful - why my employer doesn't offer it - as it's a pre-tax deduction on wage amounts submitted to HMRC purposes the taxable payouts can then push things below the national minimum wage. I'm nowhere near it, but they can't offer C2W to me, without making it available to all staff. We have seasonal & bank staff at around minimum wage - quite a lot of unskilled work here (watering plants!)
Beautiful area! I've got Zwift friends around there, amazing infrastructure and scenery.
Nice! Love the colour combo, looks really smart!
Glad you had your first 'real' off and are mostly uninjured & the bike mostly unscathed! Possible bad tyre+rim combo, do some research (googling) looking for others who've had issues. Do know you're not running something that common so you might not turn up many results... But look for the rims and maybe any reddit threads others are talking about going tubeless on them, worth mentioning/warning others about the tyres.Annoyingly, after recently saying it felt like my front wheel kept deflating and wondering if it was heat in the shed. I got up early this morning to go for a ride, got to the first corner, was going to go straight before last minute changing my mind to turn right and the tyre broke the seal and threw sealant everywhere. Sending me flying and being my first proper off on this bike and scraping my lever/deraileur
More annoying is that i took my air compressor to storage the other day ahead of another house move, so going to just drop it at a local shop and hope they'll sort it quickly and can pick it back up later tonight.
I've never had a 'blowout' like that with tubeless and used various combos, probably my riding style is much less 'Alaphilippe'
I've rolled a tubed tyre off a rim before now and had rapid deflations from them after hitting something (so needing an immediate stop). Don't think I've ever had a rapid on tubeless, more a case of being squishy, so topping up and it not sealing (due to sealant age/size of cut). Certainly the amount of pot holes and stuff on roads here avoiding pinch flats with tubeless is the bonus, the debris
Ah, but how much of that could be bike and wheels? Have to consider those also coming into the equation - then swapping tyres at £50 a pop suddenly seems less expensive!
probably not much, weight wise the bike is less than 1kg heavier, ribble has better wheels - mavic compared to boardmans flexy 2kg set that they come with etc.. I honestly think it's tyres.
Finally found what I think might be a pair of gloves that fit me. Tried on I think 3 pairs of different brands/sized gloves for summer and they were all a bad fit. Got some ASSOS aero ones now that seem to be a good fit. How they will hold up is up for debate however. On the top the material is...thin.
Glad you had your first 'real' off and are mostly uninjured & the bike mostly unscathed! Possible bad tyre+rim combo, do some research (googling) looking for others who've had issues. Do know you're not running something that common so you might not turn up many results... But look for the rims and maybe any reddit threads others are talking about going tubeless on them, worth mentioning/warning others about the tyres.
I've never had a 'blowout' like that with tubeless and used various combos, probably my riding style is much less 'Alaphilippe'
debris
I've been running this combo since November and around 2000km with no issues, including some pretty sketchy rocky terrain with no issues. I did give it a bit of a poke before setting off and didn't think it felt too low, but i know it's been dropping recently.
Equally it could be that there was just some grease on the road which caused me to slip and then the tyre popped off due to weight on it at a weird angle. Didn't hear a bang as i'd have expected
New bike shop. Same place that wouldn’t let me pay for the chain links the other week will only let me pay €5 for the sealant to refit the tyre.
They need to work on their business model!
Also just noticed that my RD says max 33T
I always thought it was the long cage version and have been running the 10-36 cassette!
They need to work on their business model!
Also just noticed that my RD says max 33T
I always thought it was the long cage version and have been running the 10-36 cassette!
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Not unusual for it to be possible to run larger cassettes than manufacturers recommended. Certainly seems to be common to run beyond spec for Shimano. I toyed with the idea of doing the dragon run or Fred Whitton and seeing what gearing I could run, forums had lots of examples of people going beyond spec without problem.
Never had a compressor or blast pump thingy and I have fitted at least 15 sets of tubeless tyres. A decent track pump with a high volume is useful but you just need to work out where the air is coming out the sides and have a mess around with that area. Oh and the ability to pump quite fast is useful.
I might pay for it tomorrow when I try and ride, but I've done 76 miles in the heat today... Set off shortly after 7am, but it soon heated up. It's probably my favourite route though, some amazing lanes when the sun is shining.
I've got some good form coming through now too. Today had a short climb I often test myself on, previous best 3:48, today 3:13!
I've got some good form coming through now too. Today had a short climb I often test myself on, previous best 3:48, today 3:13!
Went for the longest ride in ages yesterday. Was a good ride punctuated with mechanicals. First my mates Di2 front derailleur wouldn't shift. Turns out his lever batteries were dead. Eventually we chucked it in full syncro shift and carried on. Then about 20km from the end of the route he somehow hit a pothole neither of us saw and stuck two whacking great holes in his tyres. The little CO2 adaptor I had didn't work but honestly it wouldn't have mattered. They were huge holes and we didn't even realise that the rear was buggered as well for quite a while.
Ended up having to do that last 20km on my own, grab my car, drive back to pick him and the bike up and bring us all home. On the way back his bike nearly fell off the roof. Apparently the roof rack I have somewhat relies on pumped up tires to work. Without the ability to crank down on the pressurised tire the bit holding the front well disconnected and the bike nearly fell off completely. Only the rear strap stopped it hitting the ground.
Oh and it was a very flat route for a large chunk of it and we had a horrible headwind the whole time. I don't know how people cycle when they live somewhere pancake flat. Its grim!
All in all an interesting ride.
Ended up having to do that last 20km on my own, grab my car, drive back to pick him and the bike up and bring us all home. On the way back his bike nearly fell off the roof. Apparently the roof rack I have somewhat relies on pumped up tires to work. Without the ability to crank down on the pressurised tire the bit holding the front well disconnected and the bike nearly fell off completely. Only the rear strap stopped it hitting the ground.
Oh and it was a very flat route for a large chunk of it and we had a horrible headwind the whole time. I don't know how people cycle when they live somewhere pancake flat. Its grim!
All in all an interesting ride.
I've been struggling to get a ride in, with the mess of bikes currently and me getting back into weight lifting 3x a week it's not going well. Been very busy too so finding couple hours in the evening when it has cooled down is difficult - not a morning person here..
Despite riding so far in the heat on Saturday, Sunday I felt great again, a few times dragging the faster guys in our club along, even up a couple of the short climbs. It's kind of annoying as this was the sort of form I was hoping for for the 312... Maybe the Maratona is at a better time in the year for good form to help?