Vittoria Terreno Dry tyres on Pacenti Forza rims with two wraps of Pacenti tape.
Ran with tubes for a couple of weeks but curiosity got the better of me (I had sworn I was done with tubeless years ago...) so I ordered some Pacenti tubeless valves with the necessary washers to fit the asymmetric rims.
The tyres popped off the rims with no levers required (although I used to teach maintenance classes so like to think there isn't a tyre out there I can't remove by hand).
Fitted valves, tightened by hand, popped tyres back on, inflated with boggo standard EBC track pump. Front tyre required marginally more frantic pumping than rear until seal took.
Still inflated 5hrs later with no sealant, bodes well! Thumbs up for Vittoria tyres and Pacenti rims.
I think they're just getting better/more reliable. Had similar with the WTB and Maxxis combo on my new Whyte yesterday, quick puff of the Fire Extingusher inflator had them both sealed and they've not lost any pressure today. There's usually one of the pair that's a complete PITA.
Same here. Pulled off the old gorilla tape leaving the white sticky tape glue on half. Taped over with electrical tape. Vittoria gravel tyres on, pumped up with inflator. No pop but stayed up.
Must be a Vittoria thing as I mounted up a pair last week for a mate and they went up immediately. The rim was already taped so it was as quick as if it had a tube in them!
You’ve only become a true master of tubeless when you can swap a tire from one wheel to another without losing a drop of sealant. 🙂
I have found vittoria to be consistently the easiest to set up tubeless, mtb or gravel, to the extent I try to only use their tyres now.
Yeah it was recommendations on here which convinced me to go with Vittoria, glad I did (Pacenti were recommended for ease of installation too).
I had same experience with Bontrager AW2 a few weeks back, pumped up straight away with standard pump and stayed up ever since. Well the rear one did, don't ask about the front one...
I have found vittoria to be consistently the easiest to set up tubeless, mtb or gravel, to the extent I try to only use their tyres now.
My experience with road was a whole lot worse, ended up buying Schwalbe again. Damn things would not inflate on Zonda wheels.
My new hunt wheels maxxis wt aggressor and minion dhf went on by hand then up and sealed with a track pump.
Lost count the tyre levers I trashed on my sram rails
Just need to some proper riding now
Yeah, Maxxis tyres on Hunt Trail Wides here. Was expecting hassle as I’d never gone tubeless before, but both tyres went on and inflated no trouble.
Mine didn’t work after all.
What changed? You said they went up OK?
Only black mark for Pacenti is that the valve cores appear to have been delivered pre-loosened, which at least proved that the tyres will stay seated even after catastrophic deflation!
Have still to put sealant in, this might bring back all my bad memories and put me off the idea again...
Jinxed... You know you've put the front one on backwards don't you? 😉
Like you my first time was a breeze. Re-call sitting in the garden looking a tad confused when both tyres just popped into place. New wheels/tyres.
A few years later, now the rims are dinged to buggery. I'm sat in the cellar after 4 hours of graft to get them to seat, cursing the world.
Actually that mirrors my first MTB tubeless conversion about ten years ago, properly ghetto with insulation tape lining the rim and a sliced open 20" BMX inner tube as a rim strip. Popped up first time and worked brilliantly. Every subsequent installation was more faff and more heartache until eventually I just gave up on tubeless.
But that won't happen this time 😁😉
Mine didn’t work after all.
When you said 'electrical tape' do you mean standard stretchy PVC insulation tape? If so it's probably ballooned through the spoke holes and either just burst or got pierced by a spoke end. Just not tough enough. Put proper tubeless tape in.
Vittorias (on WTB rims) also best tubeless experience here too.....