Thread: Series 3 standard rims - tubed or tubeless?

Originally Posted by wagoo

I prefer to use tubes on my Simex and Interco TSLs because I'm over small stones and twigs getting trapped between the tyre bead and the rim letting air escape when running tubless tyres at very low pressures offroad.
However, a punctured tube at speed on a bias ply offroad tyre is a scary scenario I don't ever want to experience again. So I stick and seal the tubes valve stem to the rim with Silastic, so that if the tube gets punctured the tyre deflates slowly or not at all, just like a tubeless tyre does.
Simex produce heavy duty tubes suitable for use in their tubeless offroad tyres.
Wagoo.

I have often thought wouldn't it be great if you could buy tubes with a threaded metal stem that you could add rubber sealing washers inside and out and then clamp up with a brass washer and nut. That way you could have tubed tyres that have the slow deflation characteristics of a tubeless tyre and you wouldn't loose the stem when originally fitting up the tyre.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I have often thought wouldn't it be great if you could buy tubes with a threaded metal stem that you could add rubber sealing washers inside and out and then clamp up with a brass washer and nut. That way you could have tubed tyres that have the slow deflation characteristics of a tubeless tyre and you wouldn't loose the stem when originally fitting up the tyre.

Diana

I am pretty certain these exist, used in things such as tractors, and any competent tyre repairer is capable of fitting one to a tube - but whether they are prepared to do this is another matter!

John