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bontrager tubeless ready - what do i need?

27 posts & 17 voices | Started 1 year ago by M1llh0use | Latest reply from Lactic

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M1llh0use - Member

Bought a trek fuel ex8 last month which tried to kill me first time out. It failed and only managed to break both wrists and my collarbone!

Anyhow, out of sheer boredom i've been standing in the garage for AAAAGES just looking at all the toys i can't use and noticed that the wheels (bontrager rhythm comps) have a little sticker on the saying "TLR - tubeless ready"

Now does this mean just whip out the tubes, stick in some valves and latex, blow em up and hey presto! or do i need to do more gubbins like adding tape and removing rim tape?

Yours sincerely,

Bored of brokenville.

Posted 1 year ago #
Quirrel - Member

Tubes

Posted 1 year ago #
M1llh0use - Member

thanks, got some of those.

Posted 1 year ago #
TooTall - Member

rim strips and valves - according to the BONTRAGER WEBSITE!

Posted 1 year ago #
M1llh0use - Member

see - i was looking there and couldn't see any referance to tape AT ALL...

Posted 1 year ago #
thats_not_my_name - Member

Yeah, I had to buy rim strips and valves for my Duster TLR rims. Don't forget the sealent as well, but don't get Bonty Super Juice because it's crap!!!!

Posted 1 year ago #
M1llh0use - Member

so the next daft question is what rim tape. bontrager, stans or no-tubes??

Posted 1 year ago #
postierich - Member

A compresser!! Bonti tyres are a bitch to inflate

Posted 1 year ago #
Tracker1972 - Member

Bonty do a rim tape, if you use the bonty tyres with the bonty rims and rim strips it is unbelievably easy to do.
Oh, you will need a valve as well.

Posted 1 year ago #
TooTall - Member

Bonti tyres are a bitch to inflate

Erm, no they are not.

Millhouse - not explicit on the Bonty site but if you buy a set of those wheels, it

Includes TLR rim strips and valve cores

so I surmised that you would need rim strips and valves.

Posted 1 year ago #
M1llh0use - Member

ah - ok.

bought the bike complete not the wheels seperatly. checked the bag with all the manuals and no valves.

Posted 1 year ago #
TooTall - Member

I doubt you'd get them if they were OEM - like not getting a shock pump with a bike that has shocks but you do when you buy shocks.

Posted 1 year ago #
GreenK - Member

Make sure you get the right rim strips. Some of the Bonty rims are asymmetric with the spoke-bed off centre. This is easy to see.

A year or so ago I paid £2.99 each for the strips and £2.99 each for the valves.

Posted 1 year ago #
halfbee - Member

you need this

Posted 1 year ago #
Chevin - Member

Fuel ex8 DOES NOT have tubeless ready tyres, if you are going to use the complete Bontrager system. The rims are TLR but the tyres are not! Caught us out a couple of times. (this is why no rim strips or valves are supplied)

Having set up a few tubelss systems the Bonty one is very very easy.

Matthew.

Posted 1 year ago #
M1llh0use - Member

cool, thanks for the replies. got shopping list for LBS on tuesday!

Posted 1 year ago #
DezB - Member

A compresser!! Bonti tyres are a bitch to inflate

They won't be if they have already been on the wheels.
Bonty Superjuice works well with Bonty tyres, so it'd be worth getting some of that.

Posted 1 year ago #
Tracker1972 - Member

Chevin, but the EX9 I got did come with TLR tyres and still didn't come with rim strips or valves, and according to Trek that was correct, I needed to buy them. Saves some pennies for them on the whole bike I guess...

Oh, and they are not difficult to seat even if brand new, put a Big Earl Wet on the front (after the near death experience that was riding in the damp/wet that was the Jones XR on the front) and it also went up first time with a track pump. For an experiment they have also seated tubelessly with a mini pump but they had been on before then. The only important bit I found was to make sure both beads are in the centre of the rim. For some reason popping one bead off (to add sealant) just didn't cut it, didn't want to inflate. Both beads in the middle, always went up.

Posted 1 year ago #
aviemoron - Member

Just installed Bonty muds, tubeless, easy, "banged" against rim most satisfyingly on inflation with track pump. Oh, and what a tyre for wet woodsy singletrack!

Posted 1 year ago #
M6TTF - Member

Millhouse, I've got 2 bonty rim strips sat in the garage - my rims weren't tlr so they didn't fit, yours if want them. And bonty tlr tyres are a doddle to inflate. I ghettoed my rims and they inflate with a gentle pump on my track pump

Posted 1 year ago #
ballsofcottonwool - Member

inner tubes, they burped terribly on my UST rims.

Posted 1 year ago #
M1llh0use - Member

M6TTF - that would be great! my email address is in my profile, if you mail me i'll send you my address and stuff...

Posted 1 year ago #
Chris S - Member

I stuck some mud x on my bounty rims and only needed a track pump

However my bit of advise is to get valves with removable cores, if there are any compatable with the ninth rim tape

So much easier for filling the tube with the bonty juice.

Posted 1 year ago #
Rod - Member

Bonty tyres are a pure joy to inflate tubeless... I've done it on various rims and they've always gone up in an instant (I normally expect at least 5-10 mins of battling/sweating to get tryes to inflate tubeless!)

Posted 1 year ago #
M1llh0use - Member

M6TTF

rimstrips arrived yesterday and just been to the post office to pick em up cos the postie couldn;t be bothered to stick em through the letterbox :rollseyes:

THANKS once again!!

Posted 1 year ago #
timbur - Member

Bonty rim strips are easy to fit. I still needed an air cartridge to inflate the tyres though (Jones XRX)

Oh, Super Juice is terrible. Use Stans or Joes.

Posted 1 year ago #
Lactic - Member

Super juice is not terrible. I suspect it may not be as good for ghetto style tubeless as the latex based sealants but used with the full bonty TLR system, which it is designed for, its ace.

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