Can you tell us what all you purchased? I just bought a Vado sl step through and have an appointment to add mr tuffy and new tires. I would go straight to tubeless if it’s within my reach.Just to follow up, in case anyone wants to know, the tubeless conversion on my 2021 Vado SL 5.0 went smoothly. Easiest conversion I’ve done.
Bumping this, even though it's been four months.LBS taped rim and put on tubeless tires. Perfect
@Cds36 are your tires still holding up? Considering converting mine.I have the 4.0 sl and converted it to tubeless with no issues for a month now
I have the non eq version but they should be the same wheels. I am bike mechanic and been doing this for years I used Whisky tape which I love for tubeless setups but any tape will work. Stay away from the specialized tubeless rim strip they work but not the greatest. I haven’t had any issues with loosing air, have gone thru my first set of tires and swapped out with no problems. All I can say is make sure there is no tape residue left on the wheel when Installing the new tape use rubbing alcohol to clean the wheelI tried it as well wit a good rim 23mm tape and it looses air in minutes, in both tires, I can maxmium do a 30minutes ride. I'm not an expert but with quite some experience in tubeless with many wheels&rims&tires and I never had a wheel/a rim less working, even the cheapest rim 4 years ago with "Tesafilm tape" worked better.
Maybe there are differences in the rims over the years? My Vado SL is an EQ from 2020.
A link please?According to the Specialized support page all Vado SL model rims are tubeless ready.
I just added it to my postA link please?
That is a great news! Thank you!I just added it to my post