On Stans? Just bought a butcher sx for the front and a clutch sx for the rear. These are going to be used for the mega as they are lighter than dual ply and have heard great things of the butcher sx. Butcher went on fine tubeless onto my flow rim, clutch had a little more trouble, but got there. Used then tonight and the clutch sx blew itself off the rim completely and spectacularly :O
Stick a tube in or try again? And I'm now worried about the butcher too!
I have not tried the Butcher/Clutch SX combo but I do currently have a Hillbilly and and Purgatory grid set up tubeless on Stans Flow rims. All running fine. Also got a Butcher control on another bike set up tubeless running fine.
Try again I reckon.
I've used both tubeless, quite a lot... Alps and downhill racing and that. I did blow a Butcher off a damaged Flow Ex (and it was never right again, it popped back off when I refit) but I don't know whether that was the tyre, or the flat rim tbh.
Defiantly worth trying again tubeless, you shouldn't have to resort to a tube.
Since you were having so much trouble maybe it wasn't seated right on the rim. My Specialized tyres are a tight fit on my stans, once seated properly I have never managed to even burp any air, never mind blow one off the rim like Northwind. My Maxxis tyres on the other hand...
I am just about to try a pair of Clutch SX on Flows tubeless. I am now a little concerned...
Had a clutch tubeless on Easton Haven - it burped quite often and refused to stay up after a while. Now relegated to the HT with a tube in
I had no success at all with Clutch sx's tubeless
Just got latex all over the place
No problems with muddy Mary's instead
Think I'll just stick a tube in and leave the butcher tubeless. The clutch was a lot harder to seat, needed co2 where's the butcher went straight up with track pump.
ive had no trouble at all with the Spec DH casings......the SX casing I can burp fairly easily....I wouldn't trust a SX carcass tubeless on a long run like the mega.
Either go full DH casing or SX + tube (which is prob the same weight as the DH anyway). Weight isn't your problem on the mega 🙂
vikingboy - Memberive had no trouble at all with the Spec DH casings......the SX casing I can burp fairly easily....I wouldn't trust a SX carcass tubeless on a long run like the mega.
FWIW I used the same set of Butcher SXs for the fort william endurance downhill then a few weeks later for a week in the alps, they were shagged after that mind but never so much as a peep from either (and I pretty much killed the rear rim...) Now I'm not fast but that's as good a test as I can give a set of tyres... Especially considering how many flats there were from dualply users.