Spoked wheels question
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08-26-2015 | 04:07 PM
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#33
08-26-2015 | 08:01 PM
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From: Toronto
From the factory, the 'profile' laced wheels have the wide white wall tubeless tires and the tube-type laced wheels come with black-wall tires.
Sounds like folks are talking about punctures that you can plug yourself at the roadside on the tubeless tires, while a punctured tube require wheel removal, etc. I have the profile wheels and carry a small compressor/plug kit with me.
I think that the Heritage only comes with laced wheels, either WWW tubeless or the blackwall tubed... I love my laced wheels, and I think that along with the wide white walls, black paint, and chrome, it is part of the beauty wherein I get told that my bike is beautiful almost every day when people are passing by as I get ready to leave work.
At 20,000km on my 2014, it's time for new rear tire, and I just visited the dealer to get the 'rim seal kit' a wider rim strip / valve stem kit that will be replaced when the indy changes the tire on my rim. Cost CDN$38...
I've never had pressure problems in those 20,000km and I drive lots of pot-hole roads, and have even driven on an unimproved gravel/mud road once (was hard to get the mud stains out of the engine crinkle black, but that is a topic for another thread).
Here's my bike:
Sounds like folks are talking about punctures that you can plug yourself at the roadside on the tubeless tires, while a punctured tube require wheel removal, etc. I have the profile wheels and carry a small compressor/plug kit with me.
I think that the Heritage only comes with laced wheels, either WWW tubeless or the blackwall tubed... I love my laced wheels, and I think that along with the wide white walls, black paint, and chrome, it is part of the beauty wherein I get told that my bike is beautiful almost every day when people are passing by as I get ready to leave work.
At 20,000km on my 2014, it's time for new rear tire, and I just visited the dealer to get the 'rim seal kit' a wider rim strip / valve stem kit that will be replaced when the indy changes the tire on my rim. Cost CDN$38...
I've never had pressure problems in those 20,000km and I drive lots of pot-hole roads, and have even driven on an unimproved gravel/mud road once (was hard to get the mud stains out of the engine crinkle black, but that is a topic for another thread).
Here's my bike:
Last edited by r1cochet; 08-26-2015 at 08:03 PM.
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