Tubeless or not to be tubeless?

[Baatfam]

All that aside, what do you have against a tube?

I don't want to speak for SD...

But for me...
It is a lot harder to patch a tube on the side of the road, than it is to plug a tire.
It's more difficult to mount.
And it adds cost.

All a tube does is hold air...if your tire can hold air without one, why have one?

[ScrumDown]

All that aside, what do you have against a tube?

Nothing.

I just wanted to know whether A) It was OK to put a tubeless tire on a tubed rim? and B) did it need to have a tube inserted along with it? Because searching for tubed tires on the internet was not giving very good results. So, instead of wasting a boat load of time and trying to reinvent the wheel. I decided to ask my fellow riders who've been down this road before. And my questions have been answered

[shwaz]

[Guest]

Nothing.

I just wanted to know whether A) It was OK to put a tubeless tire on a tubed rim? and B) did it need to have a tube inserted along with it? Because searching for tubed tires on the internet was not giving very good results. So, instead of wasting a boat load of time and trying to reinvent the wheel. I decided to ask my fellow riders who've been down this road before. And my questions have been answered

I have tubeless tires with tubes on both my bikes that have tubed rims.

[1_v8_merc]

I think I just ripped 2 brand new tubes, while installing my new tires.

**** tubes, I'm patching my spoke rims with RTV, and running tubeless.
Don't got time for games.

[Sandy]

tubed rims wont support tubeless tyres, even with a tube in them.

So I wonder where one would buy a tire that could only be used in a tube type application? I don't think anybody has made them for about 30 years. I just today mounted a new tubeless rated Dunlop GT501 and it clearly says on the tire if used on a tube type rim to use a tube. So I did. Oh yeah, I got spoked wheels too.

[Sandy]

maybe ducati MOTO GP team will start running spoked wheels next year for the weight. putting full on gp spec slicks on...with a tube in just to be sure !

They'll probably run wheels similiar to those seen on some wire wheel BMW's where the spokes are actually outside of where the bead sits and that will allow them to run without a tube. In racing heat would be a huge issue if they had to run tubes.