http://www.gotubeless.com How-tos, Reviews, Guides, and news in the world of mountain and road biking tubeless tires Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:35:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dirt Rag Magazine (a great mountain bike magazine btw) did an article a while back reviewing the different options in rimstrips. Plastic rimstrips are pretty essential to some tubeless setups, so it was a great read that shows what options are available. http://www.gotubeless.com/dirtrags-rimstrips-review/ After posting about the Shimano/Hutchinson wheelset, I came across Mavic's work on a new road tubeless wheelset. I've heard that some riders rode these on this year's Tour de France. Bicycling.com's article on the Mavic tubeless wheelset. http://www.gotubeless.com/mavic-plans-its-own-road-tubeless-wheelset/ It's about time we start seeing more tubeless options on bikes sold by the major bike manufacturers. Well Pacific Cycle has outfitted their high-end Mongoose Canaan Team with weight-weenie Stan's NoTubes ZTR Olympic Disc rims on Ringle Dirt Flea hubs. Hotness. Read more here: Mongoose Canaan Elite/Team review at Bicycling.com http://www.gotubeless.com/tubeless-comes-standard-on-mongoose-canaan-team/ At Interbike 2007, Stan's introduces a tubeless conversion kit for clincher wheelsets. Basically it is the same setup as with his mountain bike tubeless conversion kit. Run a tubeless valve stem, 60 ml of Stan's sealant, and Hutchinson's new Fusion 2 Road Tubeless clincher on a solid rim wall wheel ... http://www.gotubeless.com/stans-announces-road-tubeless-conversion-kit-at-interbike/ I just found this surfing around and thought it was pretty amazing. Keith Bontrager, one of the most significant people to the mountain biking sport and industry, recently rode in the multi-stage endurance mtb race, TransScotland 2007. He gives his straight up look at everything related to the race, the ... http://www.gotubeless.com/keith-bontrager-testifies-for-riding-tubeless/ Outside magazine has an online feature about the new Shimano Dura-Ace wheelset that can run Hutchinson's new tubeless tire, the Fusion 2 Road Tubeless. It sounds really good: As expected, things were noticeably smoother. Cornering was also more stable than I'm used to, since the lower pressure leaves more tire in contact ... http://www.gotubeless.com/road-tubeless-a-look-at-shimano-dura-ace-hutchinson-combo/ The tubeless industry has literally exploded since Mavic's introduction of the UST rim in 1999. Conversions, sealants, UST-specific rims and wheelsets have given the tubeless rider more options than ever. With so many choices, here's a brief summary of what's available. Tubeless specific wheelsets and wheelgoods UST wheelsets - Mavic's Universal Standard ... http://www.gotubeless.com/ways-to-go-tubeless-a-roadmap/ Ladies love hot bikes. Ladies love pink. So a pink bike is good for anyone. This year's Speedgoat Bicycle raffle features a decked out custom pink ride with tons of custom colored parts. All proceeds go to the Breast Cancer Fund. Each ticket is $10, so buy your chance today. This ... http://www.gotubeless.com/fight-breast-cancer-win-a-bike-the-ladies-will-love/ Check out Andy Murrel's sweet tubeless 29er ride, a Niner Air 9. The advantages of running 28psi pressure on tyres converted to tubeless using Notubes rims has been borne out already, with riders puncturing all around me at a recent race on the flinty twisty Pro-Cup course at Mapledurham while I ... http://www.gotubeless.com/andy-murrel-rides-tubeless/ BikeMagic had this great article about the Cape Epic. Riders, Loan Burger and Reynard Van straaten, decide to tackle the eight day grueling race across South Africa. Racing on a wide variety of terrains, Loan rides tubeless, but Reynard doesn't. Until Loan gets tired of changing flats that is. We had ... http://www.gotubeless.com/cape-epic-2007-ride-tubeless-please/