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Ghetto style

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Spent a couple of hours the other day turning my front wheel to ghetto tubeless and found it an easy enough task (if a bit fiddly). If you don’t know, then Ghetto Tubeless is a cheap way to turn your bike wheel into a tubeless designe i.e no innertubes. This makes it much more like a car tyre. If you also put in some sealent then you have a puncture proof wheel that you can run at lower pressures.

Not quite sure what to make if it yet? I run front and back at around 30 psi and never suffer pinch flats but decided to make the change after a few rides with a couple of punctures per ride. Since then I have not had a puncture front or back so unsure if it is making a difference or not.

I suppose it will be helpful to have less thorn punctures but all the other supposed benefits are a bit too slight for me to notice.

I will be doing the back wheel soon and I will put up a picture step by step tutorial when I do it as I found the ones I looked at made it just seem really easy. I would like to put up a tutoruil including what not to do, what may go wrong and what to expect.