MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Just for the record, in case anyone else is going to try this.
It looks like a combination of cluelessness, Mavic XC717 rims and Nobby Nics doesn't do ghetto. Probably the first of those.
Tried the 20" tube method, but had a big gap between the tyre and the rim at the valve. Then tried the gorilla tape method. Not terribly tight (with 3 layers of tape) but I also think air is just escaping between the layers of tape where it leaves the valve stem.
Since my ever-loving wife was not totally impressed by the bits of bike gear scattered across the kitchen I now have to give up for the time being. I think this might have been one of those times when she had to [i]choose[/i] to love me.....
Sorry to tell you this But I run that combo just fine
Even the cluelessness? 1.8" NN.
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2.25 Evos for me
clueless? - The wife says so
just use Stans or joes rimstrips and stop F88kin about with ghetto versions 🙄
OK. Made it work at last. So, for the benefit of other people trying the same thing:
Used Joe's rimstrip and 2 layers of duct tape. But I think that was not really the important part. The important part was using a CO2 compressor rather than a track pump. Just popped on instantly.
yep, track pump works with good combos but some just need a quick blast with co2 or a compressor.
With the Getto method use 2 to 3 layers of insulation tape beneath the Getto tube, but only up to 1/2" either side of the valve hole
All seems so much faff compared to just sticking a tube in!!
(I do use UST tubeless tyres on a UST tubless rim on my XC bike as that meets a lot of thorns & I dont want to be changing tubes in mud)
anyone tried with just electric tape ?? few layers !!?
Agree radioman, they have been a faff for me but I've "got it" now in terms of fitting them. I refitted a 2.1 NN to a 355 rim yesterday. Before I did I checked the tyre - and pulled out 6 thorns.
Take a tube with you in case they totally fail on a ride, and you're sorted
I just use 819s - never a problem.
Just tried to put my NN on to my new 719 rims using stans rim strips I had to use 6 wraps of insulation tape to get the tyre to fit tightly to the rim
Inflated like a good un