{"id":18093,"date":"2015-02-22T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18093"},"modified":"2015-02-22T11:05:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:05:39","slug":"a-time-for-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/22\/a-time-for-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time for Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_mukluk_2\/IMG_8420.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Detail of a torn side knob on an On One Floater showing the visible casing threads. This will no longer work reliably as a tubeless tire.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/107810-2\/IMG_8420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very fond of tubeless fat bike wheels and moved to a set of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-ringle.com\/mtb\/rims\/mulefut-80sl\/\">SUNringl\u00e9\u00a0Mulef\u00fct<\/a>\u00a0rims (on <a title=\"Hope Pro 2 Evo Fatsno Hubs\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/hope-pro-2-evo-fatsno-hubs\/\">Hope<\/a> hubs) in mid-2014. These have worked great until the last two weeks when they went wrong with the\u00a0<a title=\"On-One Floater: Traction for Days\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/on-one-floater-traction-for-days\/\">On One Floater<\/a>\u00a0tires I&#8217;ve been using in snow. I was experiencing slow leaks on the rear that seemed to get\u00a0more rapid as the day progressed, yet when aired up at home and in room they&#8217;d\u00a0hold air\u00a0reliably for days on end.<\/p>\n<p>After a real rough time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/funpromotions.com\/\">FunPromotions<\/a>\u00a0FatBike Series race yesterday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destinationoakland.com\/parksandtrails\/parks\/addisonoaks\/pages\/default.aspx\">Addison Oaks<\/a>\u00a0(rear went flat slowly making for a hard ride \/ need to stop \/ etc) I\u00a0gave a more serious look at the problem. Here&#8217;s what I found&#8230; The side knobs on one half of the rear tire (drive side) have become torn. I had noticed some slight tearing along the edge knobs before, but\u00a0as the tire held air fine as tubeless for\u00a0numerous rides before this, I didn&#8217;t think it was a problem. Apparently now it is. (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_mukluk_2\/IMG_8418.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\">This high res photo<\/a>\u00a0shows a bunch of the typical diagonal wrinkles, and the end of each one has a torn side knob.)<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that a combination of new tears developing while riding and the freezing cold keeping the sealant from working normally resulted in the flats I was experiencing. I could dump more sealant in, get these holes to seal, and hope for the best, but I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s the best idea&#8230; \u00a0Instead of hoping for reliability out of something visibly failing\u00a0I&#8217;ll switch to\u00a0a tube on the rear.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/surlybikes.com\/parts\/wheels\/nate_tire\">Surly Nate<\/a>\u00a0has seemed like a good\u00a0winter tire and I could grab a pair of them to replace the Floaters, but I&#8217;m not too keen on rushing to buy new tires now just for the remainder of winter&#8230; Maybe I&#8217;ll just stick with a tube on the rear for the time being, and then decide what to do snow tire-wise some time before the next\u00a0winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very fond of tubeless fat bike wheels and moved to a set of\u00a0SUNringl\u00e9\u00a0Mulef\u00fct\u00a0rims (on Hope hubs) in mid-2014. These have worked great until the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/22\/a-time-for-tubes\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Time for Tubes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18095,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions\/18095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}