Hi Leah - it's muc-off. Wouldn't have been my choice, but the guy who built the wheels mounted the tires for me and used muc-off. It's been fine, and this 'sand' effect isn't really bad. These weren't the goo-balls I've heard happen with Stan's, looked more like someone sharpened about a hundred pencils and threw the shavings in my tire (pink pencils!). When I change the tires, likely next year, I'm going to use Orange-seal. I do ride this bike in -10C temperatures, so maybe that contributed to this flaking off of the sealant? So far, just the front tire.
On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 2:01:06 PM UTC-4 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > Jay - out of curiosity , what sealant do you use? I’ve had my tubeless > tires for years now and I’ve never had the sound or feel of muck rolling > around in them. Analog started me on tubeless and they said Orange Seal > Endurance and nothing else will do. So far, they have been right. I even > asked at the shop if they might clean up the tires during a tune up and > they told me they have really not found goo-balls rolling around in the > tire to be an issue. So, I’m wondering if you changed sealant if maybe this > would cease? > > On Mar 30, 2025, at 1:55 PM, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > > My bike life this morning involved cleaning out and remounting a tubeless > tire. > > > I had noticed that my front tire sounded like there was a bag of sand > tumbling around within it as the tire started to slow down, or just slowly > moving the bike around in my basement. I figured it was dry sealant. It > was a year since it was mounted. I added some sealant once since. > > The bead came off very easily, I collected the dried up muc-off sealant > and threw it in the trash I added some fresh sealant and tried to remount > the tire. The sidewall on this Sim Works tire is quite flexible so air > would escape out of the space between the tire and rim. I got out my air > chamber, blasted it, several times, no luck. I then had to pull the bead > over onto the 'shelf'; I did this several times alternating this and > pumping/releasing the air chamber. After about 30 minutes of doing this, > it worked. But good grief! All that to get rid of a minor sound, that had > no negative impact on anything, or me. Lesson learned though! Tires stay > mounted until ready to replace them. Add sealant through the valve with > core removed (how I usually do it). > > That was my shop-talk for today. A day I would rather be riding, but > freezing rain, followed by rain, then as the temp warms, high winds, means > no rides for a few days :-( > > On Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 12:48:27 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> Thank you,aeroperf >> >> Kim Hetzel. >> >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM 'aeroperf' via RBW Owners Bunch < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dorothy has it right. A Serfas E-gel. >>> She wanted a basket, so that's a repurposed Nantucket pannier. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/ksvlbi-Jd6w/unsubscribe >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ba07692a-0072-4533-849b-b1a900b1bbb6n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ba07692a-0072-4533-849b-b1a900b1bbb6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/ksvlbi-Jd6w/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/df5e90bd-8c50-4ea8-8592-ca4d97d4ac7bn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/df5e90bd-8c50-4ea8-8592-ca4d97d4ac7bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/01e3f982-4b2a-4136-bd8a-26319a93350bn%40googlegroups.com.
