On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 07:32 -0800, Bill M. wrote: > My only road tubeless experience is vicarious. One of our bike club > members has a tubeless setup with Dura Ace wheels and tubeless- > specific 23 mm tires. I've seen him DNF two club rides because of > flats due to sealing problems. I'd pass on trying it with Paselas. > > There are tires that are more flat resistant than a Pasela TG and > still ride well (e.g. Vittoria Randonneur Pro or Hyper), but they > aren't goathead-proof. Even the standard Schwalbe Marathon was > vulnerable IME. I suspect the only solutions are really heavy tires > like the Marathon Plus (890 gm in 35 mm) or tubes with Slime/Stan's. > > I'll also put out something that's probably heretical around here - I > get more punctures on wide tires than I ever do on skinny ones. I > think those nice, fat, soft 650 tires sweep up every goathead in > their path, while hard, skinny racing tires skip in between them. I > gave up on the lovely Pacenti Paris-Moto tires because I was averaging > a flat every 30 miles or so. I wore through a set of even-lovelier > Vittoria Open CX's (25 mm, 90 psi) with one, maybe two punctures over > the life of the tires.
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