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What rims are you using?

I just use the guage on my floor pump, I don’t have a seperate guage.

I have Sun Black flag Expert rims/wheels. When you buy them retail, they come taped and include stems and goo too. As these came on my bike, I got none of the accessories but was pleasantly surprised to find that the rims were taped.

I had waited until having a tire issue to change to tubeless. While riding the olympic trail in Atlanta I was thinking how lucky I was to have ridden so long with NO TIRE ISSUES AT ALL. I was going too fast to knock on any wood at the time ;( So, the next morning I have 2 flats so went ahead and did the conversion.

On the gauge issue, I now plan to use the pump gauge and have ordered a nicer pump. On the tubes that came on the bike, the stem was so short that I could not get the pump to connect; so always had to use the compressor. The Stan’s are long enough.

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I just went tubeless too, very apprehensively.
Everything went very smoothly for the install. My rims were factory taped.
Tires pumped right up with no apparent leaks at all.
But, it was 2 days later for the first ride and both tires had lost down to <10 pounds. This worried me but I pumped them up and rode it with more pressure than normal.
Now, 5 days later, neither tire seems to have lost any at all.

As a side item….all of my tire pressures are by the "squeeze it" method. Can any body recommend a guage that actually works on prestas?

Also interesting to me was that in my tubeless conversion, I used a schrader adapter to add air so I could use the compressor. The adapter fit snuggly and removed the valve cores when taking it off.

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