Ust
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The Duckmeister
Has a juicy midrange
What gives you that idea? The only thing that makes UST rims different to standard rims is the little ridge on the internal shoulder to lock the beads in place (usually they're a sealed/non drilled [except for valve hole] inner wall as well, but not necessarily). Any tyres will fit UST rims.
Boom King
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What does 1b equal in grams?
moorey
call me Mia
A metric shit ton.
Boom King
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Them's some heavy tyres.
moorey
call me Mia
Precisely my point.
Some rudimentary internetery.
I thought I read on Schwarbles website that you shouldn't mix and match.
So you're saying any tubeless tyres, preferably not UST, will work on UST rims then.
Flow-Rider
Burner
It's all good. I've run Maxxis and Schwalbe tubeless tyres on UST rims for years.
stirk
Burner
Stop making every second post a typo correction when you make them all the time you're self.
Sheesh, Haakon may as well have kids just to stop the broken record.
The Duckmeister
Has a juicy midrange
I'm saying any tyres will work on UST rims. The main difference between UST & "tubeless ready" tyres is that UST have an airtight barrier layer in the casing which, in theory at least, means the tyres can be run without sealant, but usually it's still needed. TLR tyres have the beefier beads to lock into the rims, but not the barrier layer, so absolutely need sealant to fill the pores in the tyre wall.
Great info, cheers mate.
I'm assuming when you say 'any tyre' you mean any tubeless system tyre, or will my schwalbe smart sam's work on my UST rims?
Cheers guys.
Any tyre should mount up no worries, it's more about how well it seals after that. Im using non ust maxxis tyres on one bike, mounting was fine, but the sidewalls were quite porous so it took a bit of effort and stans to get then to seal.
A quick Google tells me people have been running non ust smart Sam's successfully.
Yeah totally. I just meant trying to inflate them first to see if they hold, then add sealant if they do. Saves making a mess if they're not going to hold.
Flow-Rider
Burner
I found tubeless tyres to actually inflate and seal a lot easier on UST rims than on tubeless rims.
The Duckmeister
Has a juicy midrange
No, when I say "any tyre", I literally mean any tyre! I ran "non-tubeless" bog-standard folding bead Crossmarks tubeless on UST rims for a couple of years. Biggest issue with non-tubeless tyres is the beads are generally quite loose, so getting them to seat and seal initially is the hard part. Once they were on I had no problems.
Good to know mate, thank you.
I'm not going to be thrashing this bike anyway but this gives me some confidence. I'll use a tubeless pump so hopefully that will give me a good head start.
I gather there should be some advantage for tubeless tyres over non however.