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Old 12-17-17 | 05:55 PM
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HerrKaLeun
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Bikes: Giant Toughroad SLR1 and Motobecane Sturgis NX

Originally Posted by vtje
Just got a brand new set of Roval SLX 24 and trying to set it up tubeless. They already came taped and with a valve pre-installed, so I put on RBCC tubeless, added stans and inflated with a compressor. The tyre sealed all right, but then the it immedately deflated. I found there is a tiny hole in a rim, right below the stem, where it is losing air. The hole looks "factory made" and it is on both rims. Any ideas what to do about that? Thanks!

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That OEM rim tape is just to protect the inner tube from the spokes. it is not necessarily air-tight. Try some actual tubeless rim tape. it seems obvious that the air somehow escapes through the tapes and the spoke holes in that void between where that factory hole is.
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