Tubeless or Mr Tuffy and sealant in tube for goatheads?

[fooferdoggie]

Schwalbe can drive you nuts with the same tire name for a bunch of tires I bought this one off Amazon was a tubeless rieady my first tubeless tire. That seemed to work fine on my rims till I went with a narrower rim and it blew off. Only to find that there is a tubeless and a tube version of that same tire same size and everything. And get this, the tubeless versions are heavier than the tube version

 

[rob feature]

We have awful goat's heads here. I've tried it all. Stans / Orange Seal & tubeless for the win - hands down. I've had several tubeless tires leak through the sidewalls - never been an issue. Sealant in tubes does not work near as well as tubeless IME.

 

[EMGX]

Just relaying my experience, yours might be different. On my gravel bike I installed a tubeless 40mm Schwalbe G-one allround performance and a 38mm Specialized Trigger Pro both on 17mm id rims using Gorilla tape for rim tape and Orange Seal sealant. Tires went on easily and sealed perfectly. On another bike with 19mm id rims I tried Stans rim tape and Flat Out Quick Strike Off Road sealant. What a mistake with both products. Stans recommends tape 1-2mm wider than the rim width (while other products recommended up to 5mm wider tape than rim id) so I purchased 21mm tape. On rims cleaned with isopropyl alcohol and thoroughly dried the Stans tape, stretched tightly, adhered poorly and wasn't wide enough to adequately cover the tubeless rim. Flat Out was a miserable mess, it is too thick to inject through a presta valve. So I broke the bead and poured in the sealant. Even giving it some time the Flat Out distributes so slowly and poorly that when re-installing the tire bead sealant dripped out like thick disgusting mucous. I gave up at that point to throw my jeans in the wash. Tomorrow I'll go back to Gorilla tape and Orange Seal. Between the Stans tape and Flat Out I wasted an hour of my time and $36, never again.

 

[linklemming]

We have awful goat's heads here. I've tried it all. Stans / Orange Seal & tubeless for the win - hands down. I've had several tubeless tires leak through the sidewalls - never been an issue. Sealant in tubes does not work near as well as tubeless IME.

Stans sealant in tubes has been working fine for me since I started using it in 2007 with only 2 flats since (due to dried out stans, adding stans fixed the flat)

Tried tubeless many times and its just not worth the effort and mess, especially if you have a quiver of bikes.

I live north of you in louisville so basically the same goathead conditions. Goatheads are getting really bad this time of year and I can see wetspots all over my tires where the sealant has stopped leaks.

I ride about 6-7k miles a year about 70% in offroad goathead conditions

 

[EMGX]

Finally got around to cleaning out the Flat Out, re-taped the tubeless rim and everything went smoothly and no leaks even though the Billy Bonkers aren't tubeless rated.

 

[Nvreloader]

Guys
As a reminder, if you have a bunch of Goat head stickers in you tires,
remove them asap and save the GH in a chew can to dump into a fire pit.
If you leave the GH in your tires, when you ride along the path then you are spreading the GH seed pods along every path/area you ride on.

All it takes is 1 section of the seed head (there is 4-6 separate seed heads per 1 main seed pod), next year there will be 4 times the amount of GH plants along the paths etc.
ymmv