Old 08-29-24 | 12:00 PM
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Bikes: Kirk Custom JK Special, 86 De Rosa Pro, '84 Team Miyata,(dura ace old school) 80?? SR Semi-Pro 600 Arabesque

Originally Posted by unterhausen
Maybe my complaints about how loose my most recent GK tires somehow made it to Japan even though I never expressed them in any form. Pretty cool, if true.

Certain rim/tire combinations cause trouble, hard to know what's going on without hearing the same sort of thing from multiple people.
agree that my ma40 rims are part of the problem but consistently I have seen in threads all over bike forums and elsewhere the TLR or tubeless ready are much harder to mount than tire that are not TLR.
this makes sense has TLR has to fit well/tight for sealing and has to be ready to handle hookless

Some manufactures have both versions (i.e GP5000 is available not TLR and TLR with the TLR having having different sidewalls)

I would suspect the trend will be to offer only TLR construction...but as with these tires, note the max pressure between tubed and tubeless. I am not a fand of that suspected trend

I am just moving more of my bikes to tubular

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