Thread: Tube or tubeless

If they are standard 130 rims they should have tubes fitted. All series wheels, early RR steels and all 110 and defender standard steel rims are tube type.

You will get various opinions but that's the facts

The tyre shop never told me, but if you put tubes with a tubeless tyre they are not always friends. The old bf mud terrains I had were quite rough internally, and would rub through the tube over time. Got sick of that and ended up getting tubeless rims with my new tyres. Not sure if the new bfgs are any better though

the rim will be marked tubed

HO HAR

I have seen early 130 rims that were rivetted, I would use tubes on those.
Later rims (the ones with the ventilation holes) are welded, I would have no problem using tubeless on those.

Other issue is rim bead to hold the tyre on after a blowout. People have told me plain rims (no bead) should have tubes. Personally I have no opinion on that.

Terry

Hi Guys,

130 rims need tubes if there is no 'safety bead'. For example the disco series 1 rims have a 'safety bead' and I am running Disco rims for that reason. I have not seen any 130 standard rims with the safety bead on them. I was running tubes on standard 110 rims and they drove me crazy rubbing through all the time. Also they don't like low pressures. Your insurance company can get you for not running tubes in a rim without 'safety beads'.
No bead = tubes
'safety bead rims' = No tubes.

Cheers,
Brian

Well now I'm a little embarrassed as the rims do have tubes!
The flat had a scuffed area on it.

Only one of the tyres has the valve neatly sitting in the valve hole of the rim the rest are poking out at an angle.

I got out my tyre plier kit out removed the tyre (easyer said than done!) and patched the tube.

That valve is sitting neatly in its hole now.

So now my question is would the tubes have moved with a fair bit of weight in the back, the pressures were at 40psi?

I've uped them to 60 at the back while I'm putting a bit of weight in it.
Cheers
Phil

Originally Posted by BigBlackDog

The tyre shop never told me, but if you put tubes with a tubeless tyre they are not always friends. The old bf mud terrains I had were quite rough internally, and would rub through the tube over time. Got sick of that and ended up getting tubeless rims with my new tyres. Not sure if the new bfgs are any better though

Hello,

Exactly what I did. The tyre shop would not fit the BFG to the tubed rim without a tube. As they got a flat I would go to another tyre shop and get them to mount it tubeless. Eventually got sick and tired of flats all the time, so i purchased 5 steel rims about $80 each. Haven't had a flat since.
regards
Andrew

Hi phil , please be carful of repair patches on tubes they can fail when tyers get hot without warning , you don't want this at high speed . jimr1.