• Glifted@lemmy.world
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    He kinda touches on this in the article but I always felt tubeless was more for off-road applications anyway. Personnally I have a few bikes and my enduro bike is the only one with a tubeless setup

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      Sorry, but tubes are significantly better for off-road performance. What do you off-road?

      Edit: I can’t really say why I wrote this comment like this. Very aggressive. Sorry again.

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        Pinch flats are way more likely when running low tire pressure off road. That does not happen with tubeless setups.

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          Yeah sorry, I’d meant that -in my experience.

          I’d had issues with loss of air on hard turns or losing the bead more often. I wonder if the model of rim was poorly designed.

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        My enduro mountain bike. We are talking about bicycles in this discussion, are we not? I suppose I can’t speak to anyones experience but my own but I used to get a lot more flats on tubed setups. Now the only time I get a flat is when I’ve broken a wheel

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          I’d only meant in my own experience. Sorry about that. I definitely wrote that comment as an asshole.

          What pressures do you run in your tubeless setup?

          Any specific rims or style you’d recommend?

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            I usually run around 35psi (2.41 BAR) front and rear but I’m also kind of a giant who destroys rear wheels too often.

            Currently on a Spank Race 33 rim and Vittoria Syerra’s for tires. The Syerra’s are really cool. They have really good rolling resistance. They aren’t the best in cornering grip but I find its really easy to ride them on the ‘edge’ of their grip if that makes sense. I also run cores in an attempt to prevent breaking more wheels

            Here’s the bike if you’re curious: A purple Marino Moutain bike