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tubeless seating made easy !
after feelling i lost all manhood because i can't fit tires on my own bike any more i figured it was time to go to the shed and get it all sorted. im sure most of you here run into the same frustration fitting floppy tyres, they rarly seat the first time. sure you can buy a compressor, but i couldn't justify spending money on a proper compressor, i don't like the noise and you can't really travel with one either, i don't want a 4wd compressor either mucking around with the car battery and soon all sounds to complicated, its a bicycles tire not a space craft lol.
i got a good track pump so i only need the tank that can store a bit of volume and pressure.
so i made a tank, i thought about buying a wett tank ( smallest air tank on a truck) but they are not all that cheap.one side features the "input" it has a normal valve like you would one your bike on the other side a valve so you can keep the tank closed, build up pressure or when you have the pressure the tank, open it and let it seat that tire.simple as that think of it as a high volume low pressure re-ussable air cartridge (1600 gram (-: )
so here we have it, it simple sturdy and it will work everywhere you take your bike and pump, no noise, no mucking around with air cartridges.
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i did my homework, the folks at specialist say they have a pump that will sort this issue bontrager say's they toke two years to develop there pump and sks has the twentyninner pump, but for all the mulla in the world none of them are stocked in perth or online available (well not by the well uk fella's)
i spend about a hour and a half in the shed and 65 dollars worth of material and my frustrations are gone so i figured i would share this here on the forum, so you can make you own and spend less time screaming at your tires !(-:
thanks,mick
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Rad
Or just go to local servo.......but where's the fun in that
Very nice DIY!
Hahaha, that's pretty cool.
You could buy a big barrel air mattress pump and just fit a schrader or presta chuck to the end of it.
Or you can also do it off a car tyre, take out the valve on the car tyre for better flow and fit an extension hose with a chuck on the end.
Luckily all mine have gone up with my trusty Joe Blow floor pump.
Same predicament lack of manhood in the shed. Pumped like a crazed virgin in a... (ok we won't go there). To no avail usually with new tyres. Frustrated, pack wheel, tyre, stanes goop in car., go to servo, only to find they have them wacko ones that don't give any manhood ommpf pressure in a nanosecond and persist on beeeping annoyingly. Take all the above to work where there is a sacred compressor only to be ridiculed by colleges cause I can't pump up a bike tyre. Re back lack of manhood. I'm on it. Thanks a heap
I have had the same predicament trying to get new tubeless tyres fitted. A friend of mine then suggested using CO2 canisters, works a treat and saves you from making a trip to the servo
I love the simplicity of this with the release valve. I am using this system which cost me not much (had to buy some tubing a for a few dollars)
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ghetto-t...
I was going through CO2 canisters as a rate of knots too, then I started finding golf ball sized lumps of latex in my tyres which I suppose had been "frozen" by the CO2.
Youre right, i dont belive those air cartridges do your stans any good,i always had the feeling it was solidifying the or freezing the freezing it.
I still don't understand why no one manufacture is offering a proper working solution
G is for Ghetto!
You know a nice home compressor is only $99?
Plus you can do loads of cool shit with it. Like blow air up your wife's skirt when she walks past
I never had much issue seating UST. Work the bead close to the edge, then just pump like crazy.
Figured if anything went wrong and i didn't have access to a compressor or floor pump i'd still have a tube with me.
True Ghetto is where you spray something flammable into the tire and light it up! (do not try this at home, I will not be responsible for any lost eyebrows)
I've got one of those $99 compressors. Too easy. But TLR tyres are so common these days that Stans rims and a track pump are good enough. Haven't used it for a year. Hope it still works!
For normal rims plus normal tyres and rim strip I'd go the coke bottle and track pump method if I didn't have a compressor. It's also plenty light enough and convenient to take to the racetrack.
UST XT Rims are cheap and will make all these problems go away.
I've mounted tubeless Mountain Kings and Nevegals without anything more than a hand pump.
Get the wrong rim and tyre combo though and nothing short of a compressor is going to get the job done.