Originally Posted by
momoman
2 of my friends tried tubeless but switched back to tube……TPU tubes. Here in the SGV area of SoCal there are plenty of potholes and road debris.
Here are a few of the flats we recently got on our group rides where the tires got damage. I don’t think the tubeless tires would have held air for these flats.
I patched this but took my chances without using a boot. Something gashed my GP5000 tire.
To be fair, this tire looks like it already had dry rot before the incident. That crack may have happened without something actually cutting into it.