Mountain king non tubeless with tubeless wheel

[martelpypie]

Has anybody tried the Conti Mountain King 2.2" (MK)  non-tubeless tyres on a rim with a tubeless kit on it? Does it work? Is the side wall not to thin? Should one rather use wire bead version. I want an extra "light tyre". I see Mr  Kevin  E ride them - does he use UST MK tyre or normal one ,made tubeless?

Pls help before I buy and try

 

[Racer X]

I am running Conti Speed Kings in a Supersonic bead at the moment, running them with a TCK, tubless converion kit, work fine. Touch Wood.

[turtlek]

kevin uses the ust version and i tried the conversion kit with a set of bontrager tyres non tubeless and slit my sidewalls in the first 5km of the race so dont use non tubeless tyres rather go for the extra weight of a tubeless ready tyre instead of a full on ust and you got decent rolling and a lighter stronger package

[Thug]

 

Has anybody tried the Conti Mountain King 2.2" (MK)  non-tubeless tyres on a rim with a tubeless kit on it? Does it work? Is the side wall not to thin? Should one rather use wire bead version. I want an extra "light tyre". I see Mr  Kevin  E ride them - does he use UST MK tyre or normal one ' date='made tubeless?

Pls help before I buy and try

 

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I got a set of the non-UST 2.2 wire beads for a bargain, so bought a couple and put them onto my tubeless converted rim (Stans).

 

I used them for Sabie Experience last year but realised that the side-walls were damn thin that the chances of getting a sidewall cut were so high that I replaced them with my current tyre, Geax Sagauro.

 

In my opinion, if you are running tubes, then they should be allright, but if you are tubeless, stay away.

 

[TheLegend]

Marius!

[RodTi]

Uhm... ok?

 

I'm by no stretch of the imagination a light rider, and have been running Conti MK's "non-tubeless" with a conversion kit on - and been going on almost a year now without any worries...

 

Maybe I have just been lucky...

[veyron.]

Has anybody tried the Conti Mountain King 2.2" (MK)  non-tubeless tyres on a rim with a tubeless kit on it? Does it work? Is the side wall not to thin? Should one rather use wire bead version. I want an extra "light tyre". I see Mr  Kevin  E ride them - does he use UST MK tyre or normal one ' date='made tubeless?
Pls help before I buy and try
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I dont know if that tire will work but if it has a wire bead it deffinatly wont work. It needs to be a foldable tire to work.

[Thug]

 

 

I dont know if that tire will work but if it has a wire bead it deffinatly wont work. It needs to be a foldable tire to work.

 

Bullsh*t !!

 

I successfully used the wire beaded MK 2.2 with a tubeless conversion at Sabie Experience !!

 

[Korbach]

Non tubeless tyres have much thinner sidewalls than tubeless tyres. UST's have what is basically a tube vulcanised to the inside of the tyre and it serves 2 purposes. The first and primary one is air retention. The second is that it supports the sidewall at lower pressures and thus reduces sidewall flex.

Non UST tyres which are converted to tubeless, have unsupported sidewalls which will flex a lot more than they would with tubes supporting them. Lower pressure would aggravate the flexing and cause material degeneration. All this will lead to porosity developing in the tyre's casing and allowing air to bleed through the sidewalls even though they have been sealed with latex milk like Sludge or Stan's or Slime etc. Sometimes 2 or 3 applications of sealant may be needed to seal the tyre.

 

At the end of the day, genuine UST's are a much safer bet than converting.

[1kTT]

I have been using tubeless tyres on tube rims for a couple of years now.  Never had an issue and have tried several types of rims and many different tyres.  Ran the Epic on Conti Speed king protections not a single puncture in training or in the whole race (touch wood).  I run then at 2b and weigh 77kg.

 

My LBS does sometimes battle to get certain brands on tubeless tyres to seat properly on certain rims (the conti SK's on mavic rims were particularly difficult).  In general, once they have seated, they dont give hassles.  If they do, a quick trip to the local garage or better still get your own compressor for home and you will be sorted.

 

Dont stress, use the tubeless tyres!