Originally Posted by
NoWhammies
Perhaps I didn't explain myself. I'll try again.
- Tubes = cheap. Easy to keep on hand
- With tyres and tubes if you flat, chances are it isn't a catastrophic blow out to the tyre and it can be replaced. So having multiple tyres on hand at home is kind of pointless. You can be riding the next day.
- With Tubeless, if you have a big enough hole while on the road, you can put in a tube and get home bu the tyre is done.
- Keeping 2 x $80(?) tyres on hand so you don't have any downtime in riding - assuming you want a tyre that isn't sold at your LBS - might not be a wise investment. Or at least that 's what I wanted to know.
Basically I am asking if tubeless riders keep a stash of tyres on hand at home. Which I guess I could have just come out and asked in the first place but I was trying to give some context to my question.
You're overthinking it. IME, the odds of a catastrophic tubeless cut/puncture is no different than with tubes, so just take the same approach. I simply price surf and make sure that I have enough tires in the spring to see me through to the winter - we're not talking trekmogul stockpiles and I don't think that we need to worry about unused tires turning in to dust over the course of a year.