Tubeless Tip: Rim Profiles & Seating Problems

Getting Tubeless Tyres Seated

Morning all. A short post today, to share a tip on making some MTB rims a bit easier to work with when setting up a tubeless tyre.

But I thought they were all easy...

...well, that would be nice, wouldn't it? Fact is, when you're getting your tubeless tyre set up for the first time, some rims will be very easy to get that initial seal, and some will be difficult bordering on impossible to get the initial seal. All rims are not equal...

Sun Ringle Estate rims for the On One Max hubs

Budget Summer Season Wheels

Rims. Round, with lots of holes in them for spokes. What else do you need to know?

Question is, on the somewhat limited RideItFixIt budget, could I scrape together enough cash to lace some appropriate rims to the On One hubs I recently reviewed and get them out on the trail?

Well, obviously I could, or this would be a
very short post.

And just what was the bare minimum cost for which I could put together a set of wheels, including tyres and cassette?

Wheel Deal

Funn Bullet hubs, ACI DB spokes & Funn Xlrater rims... result:

F&R

Rear hub

Front hub

Rim detail

The rims are some strong beasties (28mm wide) and are made by Sun ("Funn Rims by Sun" it says on the labels) so quality isn't an issue. The front hub has the useful ability to swap between 9mm QR and 20mm with some press-in adaptors. Pretty standard fare now for hubs but quite neat when the hubs were first released (2008 or 2009 I think).