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Anybody used slime in tubes? Is it any good?
Sick of getting thorn punctures on the fatty. I'll try tubeless at some point but looking for a more immediate fix for the time being.
I use it in all mine, not fat, but 29ers.
Got 2 or 3 punctures a ride to start with, after the slime not a one.
You do need to make sure your valves can be disassembled.
I use conitnental prestas as some of the others don't come apart.
Wont you need to put a gallon of slim in a Fatty ?
It will feel like riding around on a water bed 🙂
Just go tubeless, takes 5 minutes.
1) Carry mat / yoga mat, cheapest you can get your hands on (£1.99 yoga mats from decthlon)
2) Cut out a rim width strip (it'll need a join, mats are ~180, rims 200cm), in theory it should be narrower than the rim, but I've not had any issues and mines wider in places.
3) Install foam, a bit of tension helps keep it pinned down.
4) Split a 20" or 24" inner tube and install that.
5) Add stans (~120-150ml) and inflate, the foam+tube gives a pretty much perfect seal, I inflated mine with a little lezyne mini-pump!
No messing with gorilla tape only for it to soak up all the stans and end up weighing a ton!
Good idea with the yoga-mat foam, I used split pipe lagging (all I had to hand) and It worked well enough, less so when I switched tyres as it had been compressed and lost its 'lift'. Cheap 24" fat tubes (from on-one) split gives loads of extra tube material so easy to fit and you just cut off the excess after.
Tubeless is the way forward for fat though, never got on with the lightweight tubes some use.
I found lightweight tubes worked, albeit the tyres struggled to center. But they tended to be one use only, if they punctured and needed a patch, the patch would lift off when the tube was inflated to ~50% bigger than intended and you'd get another puncture in 20miles or so.
Are On One Floaters suitable for tubeless?
Are On One Floaters suitable for tubeless
not officially - best done as thisisnotaspoon says - ghetto method
I'd add/change two things to his solution
1) mat is optional with ghetto method
2) an adjustable luggage strap around the outsite circumference of the tyre really helps it seat & hold it's shape. NB: The tension needs to be just right - not to tight - not too loose.
Cheers all.