I’m posting this, as it may help others using Mavic Crossride wheels, who want to go tubeless. Despite a load of searching on the Internet, the following info doesn’t seem to be well publicised.
The rims on Mavic Crossride wheels are narrow, non-UST and possibly not the best suited to tubeless use.(there are still plenty of reports on the Internet of people using crossrides going tubeless using various tubeless systems, with varying degrees of success) What isn’t so well publicised is that Mavic make a specific Mavic Crossride UST rim tape kit that is designed to convert a Crossride rim into a UST compatible rim. The moulded shape of the tape fits exactly into the Crossride rim profile and under the rim edge. You need to buy a seperate valve (stans or Mavic, etc will do) to fit through the tape and into the rim.
I’ve just used it to convert my wheels and am pretty impressed with the result. You have to spend some time making sure that the rim tape (made out of hard PU not rubber) is located ok and pushed under the rim edge where it locates, but once on it seems to work ok. I used Stans sealant as well and no other rim tape under the Mavic tape.
The crossrides are definately budget wheels and I’d prefer to get some better wheels, but this seems to be a decent way of eeking out some more value out of the crossrides whilst saving up.
