[jstuhlman]

my only problem with tubeless is when inget lazy and don’t check tire pressure before a ride and go smashing into rough shit like there’s no tomorrow. but when i’m backcountry i’m smart enough to carry a tube for if it’s too burped/torn to realseal. in general it’s too much of an improvement to go back to tubes full time. about to try double down for the first time. interested to see if that helps even more.

 

[Gary]

My new trail bike is better in every other way than my old DH bike.

What are they though?

 

[Gary]

https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/pack-pliers

WTF? Why would you need this?
A shoe lace (or ziptie) can open a difficult to open quicklink
removing a presta valve stem locknut just needs strong fingers..
a lock-on collar (the split) can be used to remove a presta valve core.
You shouldn't ever need a tyre lever to remove a tyre.

Admit it. it's actually a manicure set cunningly designed to look like a bike tool isn't it?

Magnetic closure? Ah.. of course. just like your make up bag?

 

[rideit]

The Haggis has fried your mind.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

WTF? Why would you need this?
A shoe lace (or ziptie) can open a difficult to open quicklink
removing a presta valve stem locknut just needs strong fingers..
a lock-on collar (the split) can be used to remove a presta valve core.
You shouldn't ever need a tyre lever to remove a tyre.

Admit it. it's actually a manicure set cunningly designed to look like a bike tool isn't it?

Magnetic closure? Ah.. of course. just like your make up bag?

Because it's convenient and it works?

 

[Gary]

The Haggis has fried your mind.

Ps. It's spelled "f r E e d"

 

[Gary]

Because it's convenient and it works?

And you already put everything you could possibly need in your fanny pack but there was still a little MOAR room?

 

[johnbryanpeters]

And you already put everything you could possibly need in your fanny pack but there was still a little MOAR room?

I wear a rather large Osprey pack, habit picked up from endurance riding. I keep tools and whatnot in it; if I carry them, I don't need them. If I don't carry them I need them.

 

[jstuhlman]

I wear a rather large Osprey pack, habit picked up from endurance riding. I keep tools and whatnot in it; if I carry them, I don't need them. If I don't carry them I need them.

qft

 

[Gary]

I don't even know what an osprey pack is.. .I'm hoping it's either a pack of cheap lager or a pack for your bird of prey to perch on inspired by that video Gee did a few years back

I fully expect to be disappointed here.

 

[StiHacka]

WTF? Why would you need this?
A shoe lace (or ziptie) can open a difficult to open quicklink
removing a presta valve stem locknut just needs strong fingers..
a lock-on collar (the split) can be used to remove a presta valve core.
You shouldn't ever need a tyre lever to remove a tyre.

Admit it. it's actually a manicure set cunningly designed to look like a bike tool isn't it?

Magnetic closure? Ah.. of course. just like your make up bag?

Your custom title is spot on.

 

[Flo33]

I wear a rather large Osprey pack, habit picked up from endurance riding. I keep tools and whatnot in it; if I carry them, I don't need them. If I don't carry them I need them.

That's why if I ride in company I always ride with my buddy Mr. Prepared. Fatherhood reduced these company ride occasions to a sad low number, so I carry a CO2 cartridge, a tube and some tubeless plugs with me. But since switching to DD tires I never needed any of them.

 

[Electric_City]

I don't have a clue as to how you can run low pressure with or without tubes. I'm down a ton of weight this year (85 lbs) and feel rim strikes every ride. I thought it was my suspension multiple times. While running DTSwiss XM 481 rims (30id) and piece of shit Minion 2.3 DD, EXO, TR, 20 more acronyms @35psi, I'd still hit the rimz. I pinch flatted @35 fucking psi on East Coast rox. Stans didn't do jack shit for a 2mm cut and a pinhole that a spoke couldn't even fit through.

How the hell are you running 28 psi and not flatting or ripping the tire off the bead?

 

[Jm_]

How the hell are you running 28 psi and not flatting or ripping the tire off the bead?

They ARE flatting and ripping the tire off the bead

 

[Toshi]

I don't have a clue as to how you can run low pressure with or without tubes. I'm down a ton of weight this year (85 lbs) and feel rim strikes every ride. I thought it was my suspension multiple times. While running DTSwiss XM 481 rims (30id) and piece of shit Minion 2.3 DD, EXO, TR, 20 more acronyms @35psi, I'd still hit the rimz. I pinch flatted @35 fucking psi on East Coast rox. Stans didn't do jack shit for a 2mm cut and a pinhole that a spoke couldn't even fit through.

How the hell are you running 28 psi and not flatting or ripping the tire off the bead?

Try not hitting every last rock on the trail?

I run 28/30 f/r on my 2.5/2.4" tires, and 18/20 f/r on my 2.8"s. I strike a rim every now and then but certainly not every ride.

 

[Electric_City]

Try not hitting every last rock on the trail?

I run 28/30 f/r on my 2.5/2.4" tires, and 18/20 f/r on my 2.8"s. I strike a rim every now and then but certainly not every ride.

I don't know what pansy-ass, shit trails you ride, but we grow rocks around here.

 

[jstuhlman]

you must be very proud of yourself

 

[Electric_City]

you must be very proud of yourself

Well where do you live? I'll just move to your fantasy land. Dirt roadie.

We ride what we have. Rocks and that's it. Bring your bike and carbon rimz and ride your 18 psi. You'll be turning around in a 1/4 mile cause your bike is butt-hurt.

 

[roflbox]

mmmmmmmm
No rocks in front range CO, yeah?

 

[OGRipper]

I don't know what pansy-ass, shit trails you ride, but we grow rocks around here.

Looks fun. I'm 200 lbs and ride shit like that with less than 30 psi pretty often, and rarely flat. Double-down casing in the rear, EXO in the front, tubeless all day.

If 35 psi and DD casings are not working for you, you need to either stop hitting stuff without regard to consequences, or get some DH tires.

 

[KenW449]

I don't even know what an osprey pack is

It a rather expensive backpacking ruck. They are very nice though.

I run 28/30 f/r on my 2.5/2.4" tires,

But mine is 2.4/2.35 f/r, Only one rim strike, but it was to the side of the rim when the tire slipped.

 

[jstuhlman]

Well where do you live? I'll just move to your fantasy land. Dirt roadie.

We ride what we have. Rocks and that's it. Bring your bike and carbon rimz and ride your 18 psi. You'll be turning around in a 1/4 mile cause your bike is butt-hurt.

lololol.

i run ex500s on a nomad and run it everywhere from backcountry pisgah to snowshoe, windrock, and bailey. i tend to run 28 front 30 back on your dreaded dhfs with exo casing. i'm not super gentle or graceful. more of a hackish, plowish approach.

sorry life is so hard for you.

 

[Electric_City]

Looks fun. I'm 200 lbs and ride shit like that with less than 30 psi pretty often, and rarely flat. Double-down casing in the rear, EXO in the front, tubeless all day.

If 35 psi and DD casings are not working for you, you need to either stop hitting stuff without regard to consequences, or get some DH tires.

Not for us. DD casing doesn't stop a rim strike. Nor pinch flats when you have rocks. Pointed or flat. On my DH bikes, with tubes and 30psi at the beginning of the year and who knows how little by the end, I've had 2 flats in 15 years of DH. That's with half of my days on DH trails, not groomed trails (ie. Ripper, BMW, Utah, Platty and Whiteface in general).

 

[Electric_City]

lololol.

i run ex500s on a nomad and run it everywhere from backcountry pisgah to snowshoe, windrock, and bailey. i tend to run 28 front 30 back on your dreaded dhfs with exo casing. i'm not super gentle or graceful. more of a hackish, plowish approach.

sorry life is so hard for you.

You must walk your bike a lot.

Life's not hard. I run tubes.

 

[Toshi]

Well where do you live? I'll just move to your fantasy land. Dirt roadie.

We ride what we have. Rocks and that's it. Bring your bike and carbon rimz and ride your 18 psi. You'll be turning around in a 1/4 mile cause your bike is butt-hurt.

mmmmmmmm
No rocks in front range CO, yeah?

Yeah, Colorado has no rocks. My mistake. I also weigh 120 lbs soaking wet and dance over rocks at a dainty pace.

 

[OGRipper]

Not for us. DD casing doesn't stop a rim strike. Nor pinch flats when you have rocks. Pointed or flat. On my DH bikes, with tubes and 30psi at the beginning of the year and who knows how little by the end, I've had 2 flats in 15 years of DH. That's with half of my days on DH trails, not groomed trails (ie. Ripper, BMW, Utah, Platty and Whiteface in general).

My experience (and that of others here) is different than yours. But rock out with whatever works for you dude.

As for your "who knows" comment, are saying you don't check your tire pressure all season on your DH bike?

 

[roflbox]

120 lbs

Is that how much Thai you eat in a year?

 

[Toshi]

Is that how much Thai you eat in a year?

Monthly, please

 

[Electric_City]

as for your "who knows" comment, are saying you don't check your tire pressure all season on your DH bike?

Nope. And at the end of the year I'm still not hitting rimz or flatting.

 

[jstuhlman]

You must walk your bike a lot..

yeahhhhh...

 

[KenW449]

yeahhhhh...

 

[Bikael Molton]

I pretty much run 30psi front and rear more or less. Maybe 28psi front if I feel like being finicky.

I weigh about 155.

May start trying out 35psi front and rear, since tread biting into the "dirt" seems key where I live, and roots and wet rocks don't exist. I'm not convinced that low pressures help in typical soft / dry conditions, fat biking in the Sahara notwithstanding.

 

[Cerberus75]

I don't have a clue as to how you can run low pressure with or without tubes. I'm down a ton of weight this year (85 lbs) and feel rim strikes every ride. I thought it was my suspension multiple times. While running DTSwiss XM 481 rims (30id) and piece of shit Minion 2.3 DD, EXO, TR, 20 more acronyms @35psi, I'd still hit the rimz. I pinch flatted @35 fucking psi on East Coast rox. Stans didn't do jack shit for a 2mm cut and a pinhole that a spoke couldn't even fit through.

How the hell are you running 28 psi and not flatting or ripping the tire off the bead?

This is why I started running cushcore, to keep the tire intact i was pinging off everything. I can run 30/28 with CC

 

[KenW449]

Dentist Approved
https://www.backcountry.com/lezyne-18k-gold-series-kit?skid=LED006K&utm_source=PS&utm_medium=KS&CMP_ID=PRS_KS_LAL05_PM_COL_180914_BYH_FS

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Dentist Approved
https://www.backcountry.com/lezyne-18k-gold-series-kit?skid=LED006K&utm_source=PS&utm_medium=KS&CMP_ID=PRS_KS_LAL05_PM_COL_180914_BYH_FS

 

[slimshady]

Dentist Approved
https://www.backcountry.com/lezyne-18k-gold-series-kit?skid=LED006K&utm_source=PS&utm_medium=KS&CMP_ID=PRS_KS_LAL05_PM_COL_180914_BYH_FS

 

[slimshady]

https://www.rexspecs.com

Dog goggles.

 

[jstuhlman]

https://www.rexspecs.com

Dog goggles.

*doggles

 

[roflbox]

Dentist Approved
https://www.backcountry.com/lezyne-18k-gold-series-kit?skid=LED006K&utm_source=PS&utm_medium=KS&CMP_ID=PRS_KS_LAL05_PM_COL_180914_BYH_FS

one watch, 2 gold chains, 6 gold rings

 

[William42]

Couple things. First, big shout out to KenW449 for getting us back on topic. That was a mike tyson punch level gimmick.

Second, I know I've said this before, but looking at this thread and seeing each new wonder, I'm gonna say it again. I've never seen something I needed so urgently in my life as that gold toolkit. Not because it's good. I'd bet its terrible. No, because I can pull it out and show my superiority to all the peasants near me using stupid shit like "plastic tire levers" and "steel tools." We've been using steel for thousands of years. Time to move on.

And last, I don't know if this has made it into the thread yet, but it most assuredly deserves a spot here if it hasn't.

http://reviews.mtbr.com/trust-performance-message-suspension-fork