I’ve had 5 punctures in 2 rides on the new road bike this week (I say new, 3,000km done on it since March). Tubed Mavic Ksyrium Disc wheels with non-TL Conti 5000s, 28mm. I’ve had 4 rear and one front puncture, none of them had anything left in the tyre and they all seem to be in different places, generally on the outer edge of the tube and they don’t seem like pinch punctures.
Not that it matters but they all happened in the driving rain. “Luckily” the last one was about 500m from the National Cycling Centre so I ran in Evans for more tubes.
I’m tubeless on my other road bike (Pro Ones on Hope 20 Five) but find the tyres can cut easily. I’m going to go Tubeless on the new bike. I don’t fancy Pro-Ones I’d TL Conti 5000s (and heard the latter don’t match well with the mavic rims). I’m looking at the Hutchinson Fusion 5 Performance 11 Storm TLR Folding on Merlin which get good reviews, does anyone on here have any experience of them?
The Mavic rims seem to be pre taped (looks like one wrap of a blue green tape) so it shouldn’t be too tricky to set up.