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...

Ghetto Tubeless Do & Don't

Knackers

I had my first failure on a ghetto tubeless setup a few days ago - while experimenting with lower pressures and landing a small jump I had the front tyre lose pressure... with the amusing (not at the time) side effect of putting me right over the bars and landing my little chaps on the top tube. Painful. And the tyre didn't re-seal properly, either, leaving me with a wheel I had no confidence in, with a slow puncture. Time to head home...