Not sure how you can say it's operator error when I worked in a bike shop installing hundreds of tubeless tire setups (so have my tech my friends at Specialized...and still do..and have still gone back to latex tubes). Clearly, our experiences have differed and from this thread folks are experiencing the same things with road tubeless at higher pressures (some have great experiences, others not so much). I agree that tubeless is faster but for ease of repairs and not dealing with cleaning up messses or the slowly added weight of drying sealant on rims and tires, for most folks, running tubeless tires, on hooked rims, with latex tubes is still just as fast with almost no hassle.TobinHatesYou wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 5:11 pmdedaciai wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 4:58 pm
Not sure where you live but I live in a very urban environment in the high desert where we have to ride on the shoulders of highways for most of our road rides, mix in a little gravel here and there, and running tubeless is a non starter. Too many of the punctures you get here are too big for tubeless to seal if you're running close to normal road tire pressures (70+psi). I seen countless tubeless tire sealant fails on my rides here. Heck, even the one of the big honchos of Specialized (a young-ish guy that I ride with very often) went back to latex tubes and he's got all the gear for tubeless at his disposal and folks to do it for him.
If you think anywhere in Utah has more man-made junk on the shoulder than the Bay Area, then lol. Plus we have all the detritus from the redwoods/evergreens/ Plus racing in the San Joaquin Valley during goathead season.
I have trained during the winter on tires like the Corsa Speeds...sometimes >90psi.
Sure doesn't sound like a tubeless issue to me. It sounds like operator error, which is common when first trying new things.
And we have all the urban issues of the Bay Area (ridden there too) plus goat heads, lots of rocks...lots of rocks...it's the desert afterall, all with the regular farm equipement/man made issues that you have.