On 2018-09-26 08:51, wrote:
On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 12:53:03 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-09-24 12:37, jbeattie wrote:
On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 10:09:27 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-09-24 08:32, wrote:
On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 5:54:16 PM UTC-7, jbeattie
wrote:

YOU GOT A CARBON FIBER BIKE?

Yes, I crossed over to the Dark Side again. But the thing is
that although there is only some 6 lbs total weight
difference from my heaviest steel bike to the CLX, the ride
quality of the CLX is easily the best of the lot. It doesn't
bounce on those low spots when you're descending at 40 mph
and while hitting bumps gives you a jarring just as any other
frame material it doesn't continue reverberating from it
after the initial strike.


As soon as I recover from the expense of building it I will
switch to tubeless which will reduce the weight by some 2
lbs. because of the flat kit.


Maybe you guys don't have goat's head thorns. With tubeless
the only defense is the running surface and sometimes the even
thinner side wall. Not much for a 1/3" long thorn. Or a dozen
of them hitting almost simultaneouly. I can only imagine that
resulting in an immediate flat and the size of the hole would
cause any slime to just ooze all over the place like it
happened to me. Only thick tubes and a tire liner did the
trick, no more flats since then. So the flat kits I bought from
you are pretty much exclusively for use on other cyclists'
bikes.

For ordinary road riders (not you, of course), tubeless would be
perfect for areas infested with goatheads. You get flat
resistance without a half-pound of energy-sucking tubes and tire
liners. TK is on a race bike and not a cargo bike with panniers,
heart-lung machine, flares and rope.


Where should such flat resistance come from if 1/10" penetration
suffices to cause phsssss and green stuff gurgling out?

Even more, why did the couple on the El Dorado Trail get flats on
both tubeless MTB while I, riding the very same route, never get
any there? Because they didn't carry a growler? They kept pumping
up, hoping the slime would finally heal things. It didn't and after
5mi or so I had to leave them behind because a tubeless leak can't
be fixed unless you have ... a tube.

-- Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Orange sealant works perfectly. It is possible to get a hole large
enough to not seal but it would be enough damage that you could NOT
repair a normal clincher either.


Another miracle juice? I had the green stuff. Yeah, it initially even
works but after a few months I suddenly lost pressure. Like a slow flat
with green ozzing out. I could only get home by pumping up every few
miles. I threw that stuff away the same night.

Two other riders on the trail (later, after I had switched to thick
tubes and liners) had tubeless with slime and it sure did not hold. The
goat's head thorns worked themselves back out and slime came out. Lots
of it. They both had to hoof it home.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/