Those of you who know me or have visited our shop know that every time I sell a tube, it is with a heavy heart. I discovered Stan's tubeless system a few years back after a 24 hour race in which I had 6 flats. Even in 24 hours, fixing that many flats costs a significant amount of time. So within a week of that race I had my first Stan's tubeless system mounted on my bike. Since then I have had only one flat in a race, and that includes numerous 24 hours solo bids, and local cross country races. So whats new?
Stan has been busy over the last few years. With the way paved by Hutchinson and Shimano with the developement of road tubeless systems, Stan jumped in with rim strips that will allow you to convert any road rim to tubless (sorry you have to use the Hutchinson tubless tire). Also in stores now is the cyclocross version and a cyclocross version of Stans "Raven" tire which is specifically designed for lower pressure riding.
So it looks like, from now on there is really no need to buy tubes ever. So whatever your reason for hating tubes (don't like flats, sick of paying for them, don't like to buy stuff from China, not hip enough, boring, the term pinch flat, etc) It looks like you can leave that in the past.
Below is some other suggested reading:
Original stans review - Includes tips
Pricing
Both of these products are now in store for us, but are not up on our website due to the impending website conversion. Feel free to call in your order.
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