{"id":470,"date":"2013-06-19T20:44:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/kib_blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2013-06-19T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:44:10","slug":"ghetto-tubeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/ghetto-tubeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghetto Tubeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been running slime-filled tubes since renewing my acquaintance with a mountain bike in Botswana, but after a pleasant 20km ride and 4km walk<\/a> decided enough was enough: time to go tubeless.<\/p>\n

I tried it once before but on old non-tubeless specific tyres and there was too much leakage through the sidewalls. To be honest they were a bit old…<\/p>\n

So, Ghetto Tubless, attempt #2.<\/p>\n

On a recent trip to Gaborone I found a bicycle shop (Cyclebase, Gaborone West Industrial, +267-3132936) and, amongst other things, bought a pair of Maxxis Crossmarks<\/a> and Stan’s Sealant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Add a pair of 20″ el-cheap Raleigh-branded inner tubes from a shop that will remain nameless and ready to go.\u00a0 There are plenty of resources on ghetto tubeless<\/a>: read a few and form your own opinions on the way to go. I like the MTB Techniques<\/a> summary, although I did without the sticky tape and foam. The MTBR links give some good discussion on the topic, and it recurs on Singletrack World<\/a><\/p>\n

The 20″ inner tubes, being cheap, are quite thick rubber, especially round the valve stem, so I did some surgery with a Stanley knife to thin it out a bit.<\/p>\n

Rims are Sun Ringle Ryde XMB (lightish cross-country\/race) drilled out previously to take Schrader<\/a> valves.<\/p>\n

Installation was done with a compressor to seat the tyres and the sealant was injected through the valve after removing the valve-core – about 250ml each seems to have done the job..<\/p>\n

Returning to this draft after a few months I can report that the tyres are still full of air, although I haven’t done too many kilometres on them: such is life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been running slime-filled tubes since renewing my acquaintance with a mountain bike in Botswana, but after a pleasant 20km ride and 4km walk decided enough was enough: time to go tubeless. I tried it once before but on old non-tubeless specific tyres and there was too much leakage through the sidewalls. To be honest … Continue reading “Ghetto Tubeless”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}