Well they arrived, so I fitted them. And frankly I’m astonished how well they went up. By far the easiest tubeless set up I’ve ever done by a mile. Not even tight on the rim, easily fitted with thumbs alone; airshot not required, they just went up with a few pumps. Bead popped on at about 70psi. By far the hardest part was taping the rim. I mean come on, what would it cost you to make it a bit bloody stickier?
Stan’s race is weird though. You can hear the bits rolling around inside the tyre like tiny marbles when you spin the wheels, and it’s quite loud. It sounds like when you’ve got grit in your discs.
The carbon valves I got from Wiggle are great too – they fit really nicely, some of the best I’ve used, they look great and they are only FOUR grammes. However don’t get too big a size as for some odd reason they aren’t threaded all the way down. I had to put the alternative rubber washer on the outside and screw down on that.
The tyres looked tiny, but they came up at 27.5mm on 19mm internal width rims. Turns out the 28c it came with were actually 30.5. No wonder the mudguards were a tight fit.