I’ve been tubeless for about a year and think its great.
Looking at converting some more wheels tubeless.

First set I did was a set of mavic 719’s using a rim strip. Being as this was my first attempt at tubeless I thought it might be tricky but was surprised at how easy it was.

I’ve had them up and down with different tyres so feel I really have the knack of it.

I’ve recently bought some stans flows and uses just yellow tape.

This got me thinking, will mavic work tubeless without a rim strip.
Was going to try using yellow tape only and buy some valves.
Anyone managed to do this?

Not tried, but the point of the rubber rim strips is to increased the size of the bead a bit and provide a seal, which the Stans rims do with a specific shaped extrusion.

Upshot is, pretty sure it won’t work just with yellow tape. If you bulked it out with electrical insulation or duct tape it might, but then you’ve not really gained anything.

The tape makes the rim bed airtight; IIRC Roval rims (which are rebadged DT) would work with their blue tape and tubeless valves, so I can’t see why Mavic rims and Stan’s tape wouldn’t.

You still need to tape up the rims if you’re going to use the rubber rim strips anyway, so you don’t lose anything other than the cost of some tubeless valves by trying it?