Message #15542

[jim-ratliff]

BW:

I have to admit, I'm a sucker for "creative" ways of doing stuff, and your "ghetto" tubeless certainly qualifies.  The pictures didn't show up in the link for me, but I get the idea.
The clincher part of the bead isn't clinching on the wheel anymore, it's just sort of a pressure fitting because of the cut BMX tube wrapped around the wheel (sort of like a full width rim strip)?
 
Obviously that hasn't caused any problems for you?
 
Do you normally use wire beaded tires or folded (kevlar beaded) and do you think it makes any difference as far as the tire stretching enough to come off the wheel?  Do you ever run higher pressures with this?


Svend: One of the big advantages of BW's approach is that you don't have a "tubeless" tire valve to remove in order to insert the tube.  Both are just Schrader tube fittings - the tubeless combo is a bit of bubble gum and bailing wire -- but I grew up in Kansas farm country and have a deep appreciation for all that can be accomplished with some bailing wire.