Have read all about converting spoked wheels to tubeless - yes, BMW, Excel and others do tubeless spoked rims, but has anyone here sealed spoked wheels and converted them to tubeless?
Sealing the spoke holes so the air doesn't leak out is only the half of it. Rims for tubeless tyres have a different profile from those for tubed. For example, I have several early-1980s wheels, some will take tubeless but others are only suitable for tubes. So what is the profile of your spoked wheel rims? Is it suitable for tubeless?
Yes indeed. Mine are suitable for tubeless tyres and are in fact fitted with them from the factory.... I'm toying with the idea of sealing a set of Sport Classic wheels that are ready shod with tubeless tyres, but despite almost everyone else producing sealed spoke rims, Ducati chose to be properly retro when it can to these wheels! Tubeless Conversion Kit would be one potential solution, the other, a D-I-Y silicon sealant method that seems widely used and appears reliable - hence my wondering whether there was anyone here that had previously trod this path and what their experience had been.
Can anyone let me know if there are any issues to be considered fitting an inner tube in a alloy rim that is designed to be tubeless please. I presume not, but I'm not sure.
Will the valve fit through the valve hole properly? But why would you want a tube, tubeless is a better design - less likely to blowout if punctured.
Dukedesmo, I'm refurbishing an old Honda XL 600, just got hold of a spoked rear wheel that has a flange that the spokes fit to that runs inside the circumference of the rim, so no spokes protruding into the well of the wheel. I assume that this is for a tubeless setup, but I'm not sure having never had any experience with spoked wheels, hence my inquiry.
In the normal course of events, there's hardly any situation where, given the choice, you'd be better off with a tubed tyre over a tubeless one. However, there have been times when a tube has been used fitted into a tubeless tyre as a get you home because, for example, the tubeless valve has been damaged making it therefore impossible to inflate the tyre, necessitating the removal of the tubeless valve and a tube with its own valve fitted instead and in those rare instances, there's no doubt the innertube would be removed at the first opportunity. Expense is the only reason I can think of that could have induced Ducati to fit unsealed-spoke Excel rims with inner tubes on a sports bike in 2006!
New trail to follow: Excel Tubeless Rims on Morini - Ducati.ms - The Ultimate Ducati Forum Excel Rims' UK distributor is Talon, they no longer sell the sealing kit. So the search now switches to the Austrian site that the above photo came from and if there's still no joy, Excel Japan, before starting down the SuperMoto route where this seems to be a very popular, reliable conversion
