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Let the glue dry overnight with an inflated tube in place to hold pressure on it–it’s rare to have a cut so bad that you can’t wait till night to do this. For longer, 2” to 3” gashes, add a section of sidewall cut out from an old tire, using Shoe Goo (REI sells small containers) to glue in the boot after sewing the cut. A dab of superglue over the dental floss is recommended. To fix larger cuts without unseating the tire, carry a heavy, curved needle and a length of dental floss to sew the cut up first. Tire plugs will repair most cuts use them with the tool provided to blot a tire wound.

This is especially important when planning a desert adventure, where jumbles of razor-sharp rocks often abound. This is a useful skill to acquire, given that some tubeless tires are more prone to sidewall failures than regular ones. But first, some basics on tires and rims.

Trolling tire valve stem remover full#

Further down the post, you’ll also find two full video guides that we put together. We encourage you to give it a try experience is more valuable than anything. To help demystify the whole process, here’s our full field guide with videos, tips, tricks, and a full tubeless repair kit to get you started and keep you rolling. In addition, there’s a multitude of great tubeless repair tools and pluggers on the market, making repairs easy once you have the basics down. Not only are most rims and tires now optimized for tubeless, many new bikes are ready to convert, or are already tubeless out of the box. Combined with the ability to run lower tire pressures for a more compliant ride-especially given the popularity of larger volume tires and wider rims these days-we think everyone should be running tubeless tires at this point. Or bomb down a rocky trail in backcountry Peru. Or spend a few days out on the Arizona Trail. Just go for a long dirt road tour in South Africa. In our opinion, tubes have long been dead. But we’ve put this guide together in hopes of convincing you otherwise.