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I've been searching for a tyre for commuting that has some form of puncture protection belt or insert within the tyre construction but is also designed to be run tubeless, but havent had any luck.
Every tyre with a protective lining seems to be designed for tubes only either with a wire bead or a slack kevlar bead that isnt tight enough to seal as it's not designed for it.
I'm sure somebody will tell me the point of tubeless is that it seals if theres a puncture so what I'm after is irrelevant, however having had a puncture the other week running a tubeless tyre, I'm slightly paranoid about either not making it to work on time, or making it to work covered in slime when I've tried to repair the tyre at the side of the road.
Any thoughts???
Marathon Allmotion?
Thanks. That appears to be MicroSkin TLE which I've not had great experiences with so far. Punctured in a small shard of glass and tore a hole so big the sealant did nothing and it took two tyre worms to plug once back home with access to super glue.
Maybe I just got really unlucky though.
I'm a total convert to tubeless, EXCEPT for commuting. Decided the safest protection against punctures for me, is your choice of kevlar reinforced tyre (Vittoria Voyager Hyper 37 here), run with tubes AND Panaracer Flataway kevlar strips (cheap and weigh nothing). To my mind I've massively reduced the chance of a puncture, and if I do get one the non TLR tyre isn't too tight on the rim and I can easily quickly and cleanly pop a tube in.
Not had to yet. To me, THE benefit of tubeless is low pressures and more grip; the puncture prevention is secondary. The former is no benefit on a commuter bike.
I think with urban commuting you're always going to get a small number of punctures tubeless - I use formula IRC pros which are nice tyres, but I've still had the odd one. Puncture-proof brick tyres aren't justified IMHO as you're trying to improve something that is already pretty great (v few punctures) at the expense of bike handling which you'll feel every minute of every ride.
If you pre-mount a sticky worm onto the awl in your repair kit you can repair a flat quite quickly if you're worried about it making you late. At least that's the part I always find takes me the most time.
(Vittoria Voyager Hyper 37 here)
Ditto, but I can't find anywhere selling them and mine are worn out. Any ideas?
I managed to slice a sidewall open on a Hutchinson so picked up a pair of Vittoria Trail Tech G tubeless tyres from Planet X. Only running one on the front so far, found it odd at highish pressure but it's shrugged off thorns and pot holes for a good 400 miles now.
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYVITRAILTECHTR/vittoria-trail-tech-g-tubeless-ready-folding-tyre
I'm a big fan of Pirelli Cinturato. I have quite a long commute so I've found heavy slow tyres just make it too much hard work. These are fast, grippy in the wet and puncture resistant.
I just use marathon green guards and run them tubeless. Bit more squidge on the tow path.
I am using Giant CrossCut Tour 2 (700x30c) which is a VERY hardy tubeless tyre. The chance of getting a puncture even with a tube would be very low but when combined with tubeless the chances are almost zero. They are also great for gravel as they have a smooth centre section with small knobs on side. Used for 6 months so far with no issues and where I ride I can get a puncture pretty much every other ride if I don't use a very tough tyre.
Downsides - 550 grams each and wired (although went up tubeless without issue)
Maxxis Re-fuse and a Dynaplug.