Stans is like £50, Joe's £25-30, Ghetto works out at about £15 but a faff with certain tyre/rim combos.
What's STW's take?
just use the stans yellow tape and a couple of valves and some spunk.
I've used Joe's and stan's with success. I'd go for whichever's cheapest.
Ghetto is so easy even with tight fitting tyres-just put the sealant in via the valve hole having removed the valve core of course. I inject mine using a large size syringe from the chemists so really no mess at all.
If you are using latex based sealant do not use CO2 cartridges to inflate it as it cures the latex mix!
From experience my main recommendation is to use tubeless ready or UST tyres for best sealing/tyre life as the sidewalls on certainly maxxis single ply tyres wear really fast particulary at bead edges.
Get the Bontrager rim strips and valves. Works better than anything else.
et the Bontrager rim strips and valves.
Aren't they specially designed for only bonty rims? I heard the strip was asymmetric.
Yellow rim tape +1
Bonty do both asymmetric and symmetric rim strips . They are designed to work with Bonty rims but worked fine on the wheels on my Camber 29 , up first time and no pressure loss .
As Ramsey Neil said, they work brilliantly and are only around £3.50 for each plastic strip and £5 for their valve. Best thing is that they last, I found with the tape that it damages easily especially when changing tyres and the valves are really secure so you don't get air leaking from that area which can be a common thing with the tape set up. Its also lighter than the other set ups and fractionally heavier than the yellow tape. I use the Bontrager symmetrical strips on Stans Arch rims.
Ghetto is easy, cheap and reliable, but for some reason I just don't like Schraeder valves on a bike!
Stans is expensive, easy and reliable.
Got no experience of Joes, but it looks the same as Stans but half the price.
Stans sealant is the best by far by the way.
Interested to try the Bontrager rimstrips myself, what width rims are they designed for? Easily available from a Local Treak Dealer? My Specialized Roval wheels came fitted with strips not disimilar from a slightly beefed up version of a Stans Yellow tape (though in blue) pre-fitted and with valves in place. Got to say, it seems to work very well too.
Ghetto using Joe's sealant here. It has the advantage that the tyres tend to stick to the tube so it's very difficult to burp them. There's also no reason why you have to use Schrader valves as it's easy enough to find 20" presta tubes.
