Jay: If you live in a paradise without goatheads and ride more-or-less road tires (up to, say, 42 mm) on pavement, then based on my experience I'd say give tubeless and sealant a miss. Sealant is messy, adds cost, adds weight, clogs valves, and -- tho' this happens only when you get punctures -- sprays your fenders or frame with stuff that dries and requires either much work or acetone to remove.
Even with sealants, though, sometimes tubes are fine: 28 mm/55 psi Elk Passes and 42 mm/35 psi Naches Passes work very, very well with OS regular formula against goatheads. Tubeless: IMO, the value is with 50 mm + tires at =/< 25 psi. Much of the weight penalty is removed by leaving off the 200 or 250 gram tube. OTOH, you need plugs for the very rare bigger holes that the sealant alone won't seal. On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 11:36 AM Jay Lonner <jay.lon...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... Factoring in the weight of extra tape and sealant, it sounds like > there could be a performance penalty in terms of adding rotational mass to > the wheel, compared to using an ultralight tube. You wouldn’t get the other > benefits of a tubeless setup (which I understand to be avoiding pinch flats > and guarding against goatheads and other road hazards) but for type of > riding I do on this bike those risks are negligible. My Hunq is already a > beast of a commuter/utility bike and I’d hate to weigh it down further. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgtnUx9RoSrESySNCYqP1%2BtT_o_ZUeGHJYWdVvFut%3DQLRA%40mail.gmail.com.
