Comments on: Going Tubeless: What You Need To Know

By: UnitedWeRide

UnitedWeRide — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:33:37 +0000

+1 on the Cafe Latex I am a rook to tubeless, and I set up my first combo yesterday flawlesslyon my Stans Flow rim. I mounted a 2.4 Mountain King with a tube for about 24hrs to seat the Stans tape and then pulled the tube, put the Stans valve in, mounted the tire, filled with Cafe Latex, and it worked flawlessly! the tire seated on the rim very quickly and the Cafe Latex sealed the tire AWESOMELY!!! My local shop owner here in Germany was skeptical because of past bad expierience with tubeless, but he told me that he might reconsider now once he saw how great it worked. So I am his Cafe Latex test subject. Now if I could get some tips to mount that darn TNT Saguaro, I have tried for 3 days with no luck.

By: Guitar Ted

Guitar Ted — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:14:15 +0000

Sevo: So far, the CaffeLatex is great. I have been doing conversions on non-tubeless ready tires, using it in tubeless ready tires, and using it in inner tubes, all with excellent results so far.

Longevity in comparison to Stan’s has yet to be determined, but sealing is superior with the CaffeLatex so far.

By: Sevo

Sevo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:45:58 +0000

Hey GT you still doing the Calffelatex stuff? How is that compared to stans? I’m thinking of trying it on my 69er I’m building (EDGE front, and maybe Stan’s or DT rear). Thanks.

By: Oderus

Oderus — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:26:37 +0000

I’ve had great success with both Stan’s and Caffelatex and I find that tubeless is just a no brainer upgrade. If you can do it, you should. I can’t wait to read more.

By: MG

MG — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:30:53 +0000

LOL… This is beautiful. I love the back story behind the short answer, because it’s a good one. That said, I’ve met very few rims I haven’t been able to “getto” convert and run tubeless with my own system, as you know Guitar Ted, very, very reliably. I don’t run a single tube in my house (and I rotate among six bikes) and only one of the rims was actually designed to run tubeless (most are actually a brand of rims that were designed expressly NOT to run tubeless, believe it or not).

This will be a fun series and resulting conversation! Bring it on!!!

Cheers,
MG