@sethpo 124449 wrote:
How hard are these to get on the rim?
I’ve been skeptical of tubeless on my commuter for fear of not being able to fix a puncture on the side of the road.
So I now have a puncture on my rear tubeless. It’s about the diameter of a large safety pin, maybe a bit bigger. Big enough to easily find visually just by looking for the hole in the tire. I do not know what caused it. I did not notice when I did it, because… my tire did not go completely flat, or even particularly close. The sealant alone held it to about 50psi. When I noticed it was low, I pumped it up to about 75 psi, and the sealant did not hold at that pressure. It leaked down to about 50, then sealed back up again. This is when I looked for, and found, the hole. I used one of the little plug things hozn described (thanks hozn!) and it is fixed. It’s been about a week and still holding fine. I did not need to take the tire off to fix it. With a normal tire-with-tube, and would definitely have had to replace the tube, and probably would have had to do it road/trailside. I have definitely had smaller punctures in tubes that did not hold air long enough to ride home. This way, didn’t have a problem while riding, and easy-peasy to fix. VERY VERY HAPPY.
