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Old 05-04-21 | 08:41 PM
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Bikes: Pinarello Prince, Orbea Onix, Ridley Fenix

Originally Posted by jaxgtr
I would call a rim that GP5K tires go on without ripping off the skin off your thumbs a luxury.

I happened about a guy Saturday that had a flat and not carrying a seat bag with a tube, co2 or pump, or tire levers. I grabbed a tube and co2 out of my wife's seat bag as I am running tubeless and he was running GP5K's. Snapped a tire lever and took both of us to get the damn tires over the rim. I like Conti tires, but do not want to deal with that on the road side.
I cut a sidewall on a Pirelli set up tubeless. Reinstalled the gp5000s I took off and remembered instantly why the new set on the shelf is Pirelli. Such a pain in the ass relative to my admittedly small sample of tubeless tires.
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