Originally Posted by Seattle Forrest

There's sort of a lottery, the combination of rims and tires can be just fine, or can teach you new ways to curse. It's a double edged sword, if you run them tubeless you want a tight fit, you don't want to lose air when you corner hard. Other people can probably fill in more detail.

I ride IRC road light, they're a ***** to get on my rims. On the other hand, they went on six months ago and haven't had to come off since. Tubeless just doesn't flat, almost ever in road riding, and people disagree but my experience is bigger tires are less flat prone, even light ones. So being hard to mount is really ****ing annoying, but it's not something that comes up often. Trying to give some perspective.