Getting old sucks, might as well have a nice bike
The WTB Riddler 700c is a great all-round gravel tire. Good enough for all but the nastiest conditions, smooth on the road, and great for everything in between. Love these tires.…
Checking the amount of tubeless sealant that is in your tires is a pain. Systems like Milkit make that easier, but even that isn’t nearly as quick and easy as using weight to measure the amount of sealant that is “good”. …
I’ve never tried the technique outlined in the video below, in the way it’s outlined. But, I have done something similar with my hands with high volume gravel tires when they refuse to seat properly. So I have no doubt that it should work provided that you get a decent seal between the rim and the bead, since the overarching goal is to get the rim tight enough that the air you…
Selecting 3rd party tubeless valves is hard, mostly because there are so many to choose from. I opted for the Peaty’s because of the design and [will probably never need it] lifetime guarantee.…
The KOM Cycling Tubeless Sealant Injector is the perfect mix of cost/benefit because it lets you add and check sealant levels in almost every tubeless setup. There are a couple of limitations though: one in KOM’s court, the other the valve OEM’s.…
Just to be 100% clear, I understand how the Dynaplug kit is supposed to work. And, this post isn’t about whether it works or not; happy to give them the benefit of the doubt here. My issue is with the sharp metal cone-shaped wedge you put inside the tire to make it work. Let’s say best case, you have an aluminum rim, with a nice bit of tubeless tape lining the rim…
I was quite excited about the potential after stumbling across the Lezyne Tubeless Repair Kit. Price was right, and if it worked would have been just the thing to sit in the space between sealant-does-its-thing, and put-in-a-tube. Unfortunately, that turned out to not be the case.…
Less than a month in, got a puncture. Sealant worked in the field, isn’t providing a long term fix. Annoying that I’ll probably have to write off such a new tire, for what isn’t that large of a hole, but it’s hard to argue with the massive convenience of tubeless even though it’s an all-the-eggs-in-one-basket solution.…
After a recent puncture that it was worth trying out the technology with the new Continental GP5000 TL on my Reynolds AERO 65 DB wheels. I am skeptical of the value that tubeless provides on a road setup, but I realized that I was dismissing this more out of ignorance than knowledge.…
The milKit tubeless tire valve system promises simple installation of tubeless tires. With easy access to add and check the amount of sealant in the tires. It mostly delivers on this goal, but falls a bit short in the key claimed metrics of clean and easy.…