East Midlands Area chat and rides thread

[orange71]

This is the future. My future anyway. Or similar.

 

[Legacy555]

50 brick's,free petrol, can nice one Ed

 

[rc200ti]

Good interesting ride this morning with John, slippy roots and rocks, some nice technical bits, and all will be repeated on Tuesday in the dark

 

[captaincosmic]

Slippy roots and rocks....perfect I feel another crash coming...

 

[unocogero]

The 11's even lighter...it's all still on my radar, i had one on order a year ago but they delayed release...

Interesting!

 

[unocogero]

Hey Ed, with this ghetto tubeless business have you come across the problem that you get a hole so big in the tyre it won't seal?

I have pulled a thorn out and rejuiced inside the tyre but it's just leaking out latex.

:cry:

 

[orange71]

The biggest I had were hawthorns which sealed ok after a few rotations. Geoff had a couple of big ones that meant inserting a tube. I'm not ghetto currently on the new bike (yet)...

 

[unocogero]

I'm wondering whether with bigger holes the tyre has to deflate to stop air punching through the hole and allow the latex to harden.

If so it rather defeats the object!

Having said that they have run since May with no punctures.

 

[orange71]

yes i would say that's correct up to a certain size hole. All you have to do is inflate it a bit after 5 mins.

 

[unocogero]

Geoff had a couple of big ones that meant inserting a tube.

Phnarr, Phnarr!

Sounds more like Big Ring Phil