So how much damage can tubeless tyres take? As road cyclists we've become more
familiar with tubeless tyres and their ability to seal punctures as you ride.
But just how much damage can they sustain? what if James Bond was riding
away from the baddies and they tried to take out his tyres? Would he be able to
survive if he was running tubeless? So to test this I've set up my bike with
tubeless tires and wheels and filled them full of Orange Seal sealant and
I've also created a gauntlet of tyre death. It sounds a lot more impressive
than what it actually is I was just up all night hammering nails into a piece
of wood. So let's see what happens.
I have no idea if this is actually gonna work. Oh, I feel like I'm getting sprayed
with sealant. Oh is that..., is that sealed? Oh it's like
loads of the holes, look, but that's that's actually sealed. There's no air
coming out. That's ridiculous! That is actually ridiculous. So somewhat
surprisingly and a little bit disappointingly the tyres were able to
see off my gauntlet of death. So I've decided to up the stakes and make the
gauntlet of death even more deadly. You got this, you got this...
I've always wanted to do this! This is the world's strongest bottle.
I'm just going to stand on it because this is like not working.
You've got like a hammer? This is just ridiculous. This is the
world's strongest bottle. There you go, right, we've also got some bum techs or
drawing pins if you are from the real world.
So surely no tyres can survive this. The ultimate tyre gauntlet of death.
I think I've picked up a few pins. Yeah, there's definitely a few pins. I'm going
to go again. So there's a load of pins in the tyres, but it's actually
incredible because the tyres are still completely inflated they don't seem to
have gone down much at all. There's a few marks of sealant that I mean they're
still holding together so I'm going to ride over it a few more times.
That's ridiculous! That's sealed as well. Like war wounds.
Like I'm trying to kill it and it's an animal and it's bleeding.
This is actually pretty incredible, there's loads of pieces of glass and you can probably
see some of the drawing pins or contacts actually embedded in the tyres. Loads
of them but the tyre is still completely inflated everything is sealed but I
think I'm going to take these pins out and see if it's able to seal all the
holes once the pins are taken out. A bit of air coming out. Sealed, so fast, I
cannot believe it seals that fast. You can't hear the hissing of the air
anymore. It's just done it, look... So not only if we used our homemade stinger we also put
a load of drawing pins and glass through these tyres, repeatedly riding over them
and it's incredible, that actually survived and they sealed everything
and there's still plenty of air left in these tyres. You can easily ride home on
them if you needed to or if you were James Bond you could
escape the baddies, successfully. So there you have it, tubeless tyres are pretty,
pretty indestructible.