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Old 04-23-19 | 02:05 PM
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Bikes: Surly CrossCheck, Krampus

Someday I might tubeless my commuter. I currently have Velocity Dyad rims (bought about 7 years ago, before I had ever heard of tubeless), but would go with the ghetto (liner = split-tube) setup. Currently I'm running Marathon Mondial 700x42 in the front, and Supreme 700x50 in the back. Both tubes have tubeless sealant in them. The front has had a slow leak for a couple months now. When it gets soft I pump it up to a rock-hard 40psi so it'll last a few days. The back, when I feel it's getting too soft, I pump up to 30. So I'm in no danger of getting up over 60

I bought a used Krampus that came to me with ghetto-tubeless and it's been fantastic. Sometimes I call the bike 'flaps'. I even bought new tires and was able to reuse the split tubes. When I took the worn tires off, the split-tube-liners came out with them, still attached, forming a self-contained, sealed system. I had to peel them off the old tires, and then setting up the new tires was the easiest tubeless setup I've ever done (I have no air-compressor)

And I think, even though my Dyads are not tubeless-ready, tires will have that inner tube between them and the rim, so that should provide a seal; and tubeless tires will have non-weeping sidewalls, so I should be good to go.
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