My only road tubeless experience is vicarious. One of our bike club members has a tubeless setup with Dura Ace wheels and tubeless- specific 23 mm tires. I've seen him DNF two club rides because of flats due to sealing problems. I'd pass on trying it with Paselas.
There are tires that are more flat resistant than a Pasela TG and still ride well (e.g. Vittoria Randonneur Pro or Hyper), but they aren't goathead-proof. Even the standard Schwalbe Marathon was vulnerable IME. I suspect the only solutions are really heavy tires like the Marathon Plus (890 gm in 35 mm) or tubes with Slime/Stan's. I'll also put out something that's probably heretical around here - I get more punctures on wide tires than I ever do on skinny ones. I think those nice, fat, soft 650 tires sweep up every goathead in their path, while hard, skinny racing tires skip in between them. I gave up on the lovely Pacenti Paris-Moto tires because I was averaging a flat every 30 miles or so. I wore through a set of even-lovelier Vittoria Open CX's (25 mm, 90 psi) with one, maybe two punctures over the life of the tires. Bill On Jan 20, 11:47 pm, cyclotourist <[email protected]> wrote: > Today I pulled my Rivy down from the hook and find the rear tire flat. > <a > href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclotourist/6733538469/in/photostream/";>Yep, > another goathead. </a> I don't know how often this happens, but lets > just say I've gone through a 100 pack of Rema tubes in the last few > years! So I'm kinda' considering going tubeless with this bike. Sun > CR-18 rims and 35mm Paselas. I have my 29er set up that way and love > it, but have Stans rims etc. > > Any experiences positive or negative with a set up like this? > > -- > Cheers, > David > Redlands, CA > > ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
