After riding with tubelessfor over a year on my bikes my wife tried my single speed out back to back with hers and was amazed at the difference so needless to say I needed to get her some tubeless wheels.I was looking for info on the maxxis rimstrips and came across this link: http://www.nsmb.com/gear/tubeless_12_04.php.I teid it out and it works great.
The first set of wheels I tried it on was a pair of rhinolite on xt disk with maxxis minion 2.35 tires.I had no problems at all.I did use the stans sealent instead of the mold builder (liquid latex) and they have been holding air for over a week now (2 xc 16 mile xc rides and 1 weekend at a ski restort).I did find that if you don't spray the soapy water on the tires first you may not be able to get them inflated.The first time I tried I didn't use the soapy water and the air at 120 psi would not seat the bead or even inflate the tire at all but as soon as I sprayed the soapy water on it was imediate and worked like a charm.
The next wheels we did was a friend at works cross wheelset alex adventurer 700c rims and maxxis 35mm tires.These were a little harder to get the air to inflate them but thay seem to be working like a charm.After almost a week of daily commuting they are still holding up fine for him.I believe over the weekend he lost a little air but were still rideable this monring.This is probably due to the thinner sidewalls on the cross tires as aposed to the thicker sidewalls on the dh(minion) tires.
needless to say it is a whole lot cheeper than buying new tubeless wheels or even stans rimstrips.I wieghed the tubes I put in the rhinolights before I installed them and the whole tube was 84 grams,so after triming them I was probably left with about 50 or so grams.Also if you use the schrader valve tubes you can add sealent as you need.I used presta valves in the rhinolites not thinking about this and am not sure if I will be able to reuse the tubes after i add sealent but I will post later and let you know how it goes.
Bottom line if you haven't tried tubeless yet here is a great way to try it and I promise once you ride tubeless you won't be sorry, it makes an amazing difference in the ride of any bike.
The first set of wheels I tried it on was a pair of rhinolite on xt disk with maxxis minion 2.35 tires.I had no problems at all.I did use the stans sealent instead of the mold builder (liquid latex) and they have been holding air for over a week now (2 xc 16 mile xc rides and 1 weekend at a ski restort).I did find that if you don't spray the soapy water on the tires first you may not be able to get them inflated.The first time I tried I didn't use the soapy water and the air at 120 psi would not seat the bead or even inflate the tire at all but as soon as I sprayed the soapy water on it was imediate and worked like a charm.
The next wheels we did was a friend at works cross wheelset alex adventurer 700c rims and maxxis 35mm tires.These were a little harder to get the air to inflate them but thay seem to be working like a charm.After almost a week of daily commuting they are still holding up fine for him.I believe over the weekend he lost a little air but were still rideable this monring.This is probably due to the thinner sidewalls on the cross tires as aposed to the thicker sidewalls on the dh(minion) tires.
needless to say it is a whole lot cheeper than buying new tubeless wheels or even stans rimstrips.I wieghed the tubes I put in the rhinolights before I installed them and the whole tube was 84 grams,so after triming them I was probably left with about 50 or so grams.Also if you use the schrader valve tubes you can add sealent as you need.I used presta valves in the rhinolites not thinking about this and am not sure if I will be able to reuse the tubes after i add sealent but I will post later and let you know how it goes.
Bottom line if you haven't tried tubeless yet here is a great way to try it and I promise once you ride tubeless you won't be sorry, it makes an amazing difference in the ride of any bike.