Convert to Tubeless?

Legs_Eleven_Worcester · 2018-12-11T13:47:27+00:00

How much would it cost me to convert my Giant to tubeless? A wheelset, tyres and fluid. Any recommendations?

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December 11, 2018 at 1:47 pm #29195

Legs_Eleven_Worcester

How much would it cost me to convert my Giant to tubeless? A wheelset, tyres and fluid. Any recommendations?
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January 25, 2019 at 8:26 pm #932883
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CXR94Di2

Always put 70-75mil of either

Always put 70-75mil of either Stans or Orange sealant per tyre. using 30mil isnt sufficient for road tyres

January 25, 2019 at 6:58 pm #932881
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Stratman

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:
So, the wait has been long, but my lovely steed is now shorn with two Pirelli Cinturato tubeless. It’s taken over a month to assemble all of the bits, and the cost is probably north of £150 when everything’s taken into account.

Off today on annual leave, but back on the bike come Monday. 🙂

Thank you to all for the advice.

EDIT: just actually calculated the costs. £157.25, including LBS labour.

I’d be interested to know how you get on. I’ve had Sector 28s since summer, rear punctured a couple of months ago and didn’t seal, so I put a tube in it. It was also sketchy on a damp descent near home, so I’m now back on the old faithful GP4S. I would like to go back to tubeless though, just not sure what to get.

January 25, 2019 at 9:17 am #932879
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Legs_Eleven_Worcester

brooksby wrote:
Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:
So, the wait has been long, but my lovely steed is now shorn with two Pirelli Cinturato tubeless. It’s taken over a month to assemble all of the bits, and the cost is probably north of £150 when everything’s taken into account.

Off today on annual leave, but back on the bike come Monday. 🙂

Thank you to all for the advice.

“Shod”, not “shorn”  PEDANTIC=OFF

Have a good holiday!

*cough* Just testing….

January 25, 2019 at 9:09 am #932877
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brooksby

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:
So, the wait has been long, but my lovely steed is now shorn with two Pirelli Cinturato tubeless. It’s taken over a month to assemble all of the bits, and the cost is probably north of £150 when everything’s taken into account.

Off today on annual leave, but back on the bike come Monday. 🙂

Thank you to all for the advice.

“Shod”, not “shorn”  PEDANTIC=OFF

Have a good holiday!

January 25, 2019 at 9:06 am #932875
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Legs_Eleven_Worcester

So, the wait has been long,

So, the wait has been long, but my lovely steed is now shorn with two Pirelli Cinturato tubeless. It’s taken over a month to assemble all of the bits, and the cost is probably north of £150 when everything’s taken into account.

Off today on annual leave, but back on the bike come Monday. 🙂

Thank you to all for the advice.

EDIT: just actually calculated the costs. £157.25, including LBS labour.

December 13, 2018 at 1:08 pm #932873
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Legs_Eleven_Worcester

KendalRed wrote:
Hutchinson Fusion 5 for me. Got them on the ‘best’ bike, and all I have ever had to do is add a bit more sealant after a few months. Bestie has now been consigned to the wall hanger (wall art!) for the winter, and I have a winter/commuter on the go, but still with tubed Schwable Duranos on there, which to be fair have been excellent, but did suffer a snake bite puncture last winter that nearly saw me get frostbite in the fingers whilst changing the tube – I have intended to go tubeless on them as well, but just too damn lazy to get on with it – plus had no more punctures on the Duranos, so might just leave it until they are worn out…

…which is going to jinx it now I suppose!

Those Pirelli’s look good though, might just have to be my next set.

I know what you mean about ‘bestie’. I have five bikes, and there’s no way I can afford to convert them all to tubeless.

The Pirellis arrived this morning. The packaging is very nice, at least. Bit strange when the postman handed me a medium-sized box, when I’m used to tyres being delivered in, well … tyre-sized packages.

December 13, 2018 at 11:32 am #932871
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Kendalred

Hutchinson Fusion 5 for me.

Hutchinson Fusion 5 for me. Got them on the ‘best’ bike, and all I have ever had to do is add a bit more sealant after a few months. Bestie has now been consigned to the wall hanger (wall art!) for the winter, and I have a winter/commuter on the go, but still with tubed Schwable Duranos on there, which to be fair have been excellent, but did suffer a snake bite puncture last winter that nearly saw me get frostbite in the fingers whilst changing the tube – I have intended to go tubeless on them as well, but just too damn lazy to get on with it – plus had no more punctures on the Duranos, so might just leave it until they are worn out…

…which is going to jinx it now I suppose!

Those Pirelli’s look good though, might just have to be my next set.

December 13, 2018 at 9:34 am #932869
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hawkinspeter

Dicklexic wrote:
My various sets of Schwalbe Pro Ones and S-Ones with Stans sealant have given excellent reliabilty for the past three and a half years, but in the seat pack I still carry one spare tube just in case, two tyre levers (although the Schwalbes are dead easy to fit without levers) a small traditional puncture kit and a couple of Park Tools Tyre Boots. A decent mini pump (Lezyne HP Road Drive) clipped to the bottle cage is adequate, especially since running tubeless means you can use lower tyre pressues as well. I have wondered about also carrying some ‘anchovy’ type tubeless repair plugs. I never bother with CO2 cannisters.

I did have some Schwalbe Pro Ones on my bike, but I’ve found that their not very tough and I did get a big cut on one that ruined it (it was only a week old as well). The biggest issue that I had with commuting on them is that they tend to get very slippery in the wet if you put more than around 70psi into them.

I’ve got some “anchovy” fixers as well, but whenever I’ve had a puncture that was too big for sealant to work, it was too big for the anchovy to work as well.

December 13, 2018 at 9:28 am #932867
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cycle.london

fukawitribe wrote:
+1 on the Lezyne HP Road Drive – cracking bit of kit, simple, just works (well), love mine.

Got one of these in my backpack.

MICRO FLOOR DRIVE HP

December 12, 2018 at 1:48 pm #932865
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fukawitribe

+1 on the Lezyne HP Road

+1 on the Lezyne HP Road Drive – cracking bit of kit, simple, just works (well), love mine.

December 12, 2018 at 11:40 am #932863
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Dicklexic

My various sets of Schwalbe

My various sets of Schwalbe Pro Ones and S-Ones with Stans sealant have given excellent reliabilty for the past three and a half years, but in the seat pack I still carry one spare tube just in case, two tyre levers (although the Schwalbes are dead easy to fit without levers) a small traditional puncture kit and a couple of Park Tools Tyre Boots. A decent mini pump (Lezyne HP Road Drive) clipped to the bottle cage is adequate, especially since running tubeless means you can use lower tyre pressues as well. I have wondered about also carrying some ‘anchovy’ type tubeless repair plugs. I never bother with CO2 cannisters.

December 11, 2018 at 9:43 pm #932861
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hawkinspeter

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:
Unless there’s something glaringly obvious (and bleedin’ heavy) that I’m missing and that I absolutely need, I reckon my in-backpack commuting tool roll will be halved in weight. I currently have …

1 x lezyne foot pump

1 x ‘var’ tyre lever

3 x acrylic tyre levers

2 x Specialized inner tubes

1 x small pack of tie-backs

Do I need an inner tube? As my commute is relatively ‘local’, if I get stranded, I can jump on a train.

I have a tube, tyre levers, a hand pump and a co2 cannister, but have never bothered to muck around with putting in a tube when I’ve had a big cut as I’ve been close to a train station. I might ditch the co2 cannister as I’ve never had them work very well, so I’d be carrying a hand pump anyway (iPump twist: https://ipump.co.jp/#iPumpTwistClass ).

December 11, 2018 at 9:29 pm #932859
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Legs_Eleven_Worcester

Unless there’s something

Unless there’s something glaringly obvious (and bleedin’ heavy) that I’m missing and that I absolutely need, I reckon my in-backpack commuting tool roll will be halved in weight. I currently have …

1 x lezyne foot pump

1 x ‘var’ tyre lever

3 x acrylic tyre levers

2 x Specialized inner tubes

1 x small pack of tie-backs

Do I need an inner tube? As my commute is relatively ‘local’, if I get stranded, I can jump on a train.

December 11, 2018 at 9:23 pm #932857
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Legs_Eleven_Worcester

2 x SR-2 tubeless rims from

2 x SR-2 tubeless rims from Giant – check

2 x Pirelli Cinturato TLR (700C x 25) from Wiggle – check

Genuine Innovations Tubeless Tire Repair Kit – in wife’s Amazon basket (as she has Prime)

Caffelatex – as above.

I should be running tubeless by the time I go back to work early January. 🙂

December 11, 2018 at 8:54 pm #932855
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Fish_n_Chips

Had some tubeless wheels with

Had some tubeless wheels with my TCR, they’re not bad at all. Wish I went tubeless years ago.

Those CRC wheels, lightish for training wheels. I was wondering if anyone knew if that freehub is readily available or a special order part from the manufacturer?

Servicing cheap wheels always came back to sting me with rare expensive parts.
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