If going tubeless means not having to go through this, where do I sign up?

[Uni]

How I spent my Saturday afternoon.

 

Decided to go for a quick gentle ride around the neighbourhood paths and parks. About 3kms in I get a puncture for the first time while riding alone. Figure, no biggie, I got all my tools. Get the tube out, find 3 paper thorns in the tyre, can't find squat in the tube.

Ok, I'll just change the tube.

Take out my spare (which was the first one I ever bought when I got my bike) and the valve is very different to my existing one. So much so that I can't figure a way to shove it into the pump I have. What gives? What's the difference in these two. Is there a bit I'm supposed to remove, or unscrew or something?

 

 

Ended up having to switch my endomondo from cycling to walking, and took the walk of shame home. noobie fail.

[CAAD4]

One valve is Presta, one Scrader, buy a few of the one that came out of your tyre. Maybe get ones with slime in.

[Capricorn]

presta (left in 2nd image) vs shrader, right). Most pumps these days require you switch an internal adapter around to accomodate either valve type. Bit of a fuss to get it out, but simple enough. Guess it's just best to choose the tube with the correct valve before you pay for it

 

anyways, goto tubeless Dont bother with tubes with 'slime' (urrgh. terrible word. Sealant is the correct descriptor).

You wont regret it. At all.

Edited August 24, 2013 by Capricorn

[Vetseun]

Or do the toobliss thing. It is easy to do diy and really worth it. Or slime tubes. They weigh a ton but should help

[Bullit]

Ya man. There is a huge difference between the two. The one on the left is a presta valve and the one on the right a normal car tyre valve a Schrader valve.

 

Depending on your rim and the size of the hole through its depends on which valve you will use.

 

Always make sure your spare tubes valve is the same and the one you are using now.

 

You can drill out a rim( at your own risk ) to fit the normal valves.

 

Not much difference between the two though. Only that the presta has a small nut that must by unscrewed to pump it up.

And has a small back nut holding the valve against the rim.

 

Good luck

[brad890]

The fat valve on the tube that punctured is a Schrader Valve, the thin one on the spare is a Presta Valve, you can use a Presta valve on a Schrader valve rim as a quick fix, but not the other way around, as the schrader valve will not fit through the hole of the presta rim.

 

What you need is a adapter, that screws onto the presta valve, and then you'll be sorted.

 

But yes tubeless would be the way to go, It helps for devil thorns and the likes. Failing that second best would be slime tubes, they work but not as well as full on tubeless.

[Warren911]

Punctures suck...go tubeless best move you can make!!

[kosmonooit]

Tubeless is great, but $$$ if you going to convert. Other option until you do that is tyre liners, I used them for years before going tubeless. You also get some great general purpose puncture proof Kevlar lined tyres, I use some on my mtb commuter yet to have a flat *touches wood*

[Warren911]

serach around and look at the threads dealing with ghetto conversions. Save you some money!!

[Skylark]

Tubeless for the win, they laugh at devil thorns and their ilk

[Pieter1]

I used to ride with those slime tubes from Giant and they are flippen awesome! I now have tubeless and its just as cool esp that I can run them pretty flat.

[BarHugger]

Guess which tyre set-up could handle this problem

[Big H*]

Guess which tyre set-up could handle this problem

 

Looking at the dice it was/is still a gamble!!!!!!

[cruiser]

One word...

[cruiser]

One word...

[cruiser]

Tubeless.