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I have seen a lot of people use UST and the Stans rims with no problems. Personally I would look into Stans becuase you have more tire choices.
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bodie6 wrote: ...How many of you run a tubeless setup? I'm currently running my wheels "ghetto tubeless," with Stan's sealant, presta valves, and a 20" BMX tire as a rim strip. So far, so good. I'm using a 26X2.2 Specialized Purgatory Control 2bliss tire up front and a 26X2.0 Specialized Captain Control 2bliss tire in the back. Anyone else running a non-UST set-up? What are your tires of choice?
Unfortunately, if you really ride in the woods, you will find yourself burping non tubeless wheelsets on rocks and roots. I had Eric (from Erics Cycles) rig up my mavic 29er wheels last year (he uses rim strips at the side-walls to do this), and I burped them a ton on easy stuff at the Brook. Bennymac told me he had the same problem I believe.
Tubeless is awesome, but that's with tubeless rims like any of the Stans rims out there. If you are light, get some Stans Arch's rims, if you are heavy or ride big and heavy, get some Stan's Flows!
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TJ Zydel wrote: there was a semi recent issue that shows a do it yourself version of tubeless where you take a regular tube, slice it open down the middle, lay in in the wheel, put in sealant, add tire, seat, seal, and pump.
That would be the ghetto tubeless bodie6 is using right now with the 20" tube.
Bodie, the absolute best tire for our area(if you are not racing XC) would be any of the 2.35 Maxxis tires with the ST(42a) durometer rubber. If the trails are dry I will only use the sticky rubber up front and will use a 60a durometer tire in the back. Really really dry I will use 2.35 Maxxis Ignitors(really lousy in any moisture). My tire of choice front and rear with sticky rubber is the Maxxis High Roller.
Anyone who says something else is better has not tried this set up, period.
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However, I just pulled the lowers from my fork and changed the oil and cleaned everything off. It only took 3 hours...LOL. How many of you run a tubeless setup? I'm currently running my wheels "ghetto tubeless," with Stan's sealant, presta valves, and a 20" BMX tire as a rim strip. So far, so good. I'm using a 26X2.2 Specialized Purgatory Control 2bliss tire up front and a 26X2.0 Specialized Captain Control 2bliss tire in the back. Anyone else running a non-UST set-up? What are your tires of choice?
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