Welcome to another hands-on session here in the Llama garage
Today's project is to convert the Canyon Grail from tubes over to tubeless
The Schwalbe G-One Bite TLE 40 mm tyres on this bike are tubeless ready
The DT Swiss rims are tubeless ready and now I have everything down here
That is tubeless ready.
Today's equipment list is as follows the Doc Blue sealant enough to fill 60 mL front 60 mL back
The KOM cycling injector to get the sealant in there and to measure the sealant. We have the valves
We have some soapy water and we have two pumps on hand. I have the Blackburn chamber pump in case we need to
Explode the tire onto the rim and we have the trusty old
Joe Blow pump and I have a rag because no doubt this could get a little messy and
As a backup, I have some tyre levers just in case I can't get those tires hooked onto the rim
But we shouldn't need those today.
Now, some would say me tinkering with tubeless is like cutting myself to see if it bleeds and
You'd probably be right. My experience with tubeless to date It has been a little
Deflating so to speak. Yes dad jokes
(I am qualified to make dad jokes now)
But look brand new for me tubeles has been brilliant for my very first pair of hunt wheels. Where Dr. Slane
and I converted them over to tubeless they ran beautifully right through till the GP 5000 TLs
Where the front took eight minutes to convert, the back took eight minutes to convert. (not this bike my other bike)
But that was absolutely seamless
It just happens to be when I run into sharp objects or need to swap tires over with tubeless
It becomes a bit of a problem. So I don't foresee any issues today swapping these Schwalbe
(Apologies for my pronunciation isn't quite right. My German isn't the best)
These Schwalbe tyres should be converted over because effectively they're brand new tyres on rims that are compatible
I have everything here on the Schwalbe website. They actually do the conversion very easily and they use a hand pump
I'm not going to go that far today
I'm gonna be using a track pump plus a chamber pump in case I do need it
Alright enough talking. Let's see how easy this process is.
There is a lot of air in these tyres a lot more volume than what I'm used to on the road be sure
Yeah, okay, I'm not gonna get these off by hand I thought I'd be able to do that
All I need is just to pop it over just a little bit and it'd be good to go
Tyre levers plastic so you can't do too much damage
Tube is out
now these have only got
Probably less than 100 kilometers on them. So everything is brand new
All looks well. I won't even have to pop the tyre off the bead at all on the other side
So I'm going to keep rolling with it
by putting the valve in
And the tip last week from the comments in the channel was to put the bead on from the opposite side of the valve
So let's give that a shot this time
Boom! Done okay. We are on. Making sure the tyres on both sides of the valve. It is indeed now
Here's the next trick the soapy water trick now Schwalbe
(again pronunciation apologies if I'm getting that wrong) do have an applicator with some kind of
Liquid-type slippy-type stuff. Um
dishwashing liquid warm water and
It's all we really should need just to make that tyre slip on
Both sides
And I'll first try with just a standard
Old trusty pump. Old crusty here. The Joe blow pump that I've had for years and years
See if it just sits on the rim
Oh, get out of here. No way!
As I said me and tubeless and brand new things...
My word! That was... that just popped on like that. No tricks. No nothing. Okay
Let's keep rolling with it if my luck is going that well
It's a happy day!
If that does work, I'll be so stoked with the front and back
Okay, so that's popped on the rim. We don't have any
Doc blue [in the tyre] which is the sealant
Sure, this is my favorite sealant, it's the only one I've got sorry. It's gonna be my favorite sealant today
Now the fun part. You installed the sealant first of all, let's do things the right way so that's being shaken up quite a bit
"Stanimals" was the word for those playing a long game for that
Jonathan from TrainerRoad has branded the little gummy bally bits of stans
gunk that
eventuate in the tires after a while, so
We want 60ml front and back. That's what Dr. Slane tells me. It's probably going to be a good bet
60 ml of Sealant that's quite a bit. Don't forget your towel
Next up. Deflate the tyre
Remove the valve core, stick the tyre on an angle
Goop goes in
Core back on
Tyre back up, I'm gonna be running
30 on the front, 35 on the rear that's about what I could find as the recommended
Pressures for my weight around 75 kg on 40 mm tyres on gravel.
If anybody has any other tips on what pressure I should be running let me know?
Okay
30
Done and we give this a good shaking
I guess the theory is that you're shaking it all around that's coating the inside of the tyre.
I can hear it shaking around
So I'm will need to go for a roll and on these.
That was the whole plan of today to get this done so I can get out for a ride
Can you believe it?! I can't!
That's Awesome! One down, one to go.
Look at that dinner plate
Bigger than your head. Okay, same deal, rinse and repeat. Let's get this one done nice and fast
I'm not sure if it's a thing, but I just coat the
valve
bit of the sealant, it slips in a little easier
That way hopefully seals in little holes, which is what it's going to do inside the tyre anyway
Finger tight they say. Finger tight.
Again opposite side will work the tyre on thank you to the people who pointed that out last week. It worked last tyre
Bam! Awesome, go Internet. Thank you for that one, brilliant. Tyres on both sides again out with the dishwashing liquid
Here we go, ah
That's pure joy, that is pure joy
So that all I have left in there
Same deal again. Let the air out
Okay, now we are let down and the best part about this is the tyre hasn't popped off the rim and a few of the
Road conversions I was doing the tyre would pop off the rim and wouldn't inflate again
So this pops out on the rim and grabs a hold and stays there
brilliant
core comes out
And 35 on the rear
So there we are one and two tyres converted over to tubeless without a problem in the world that was super simple!
Pumped up with one hand on a track pump. So all this equipment. I think the soapy water really did help
The doc blue sealant I'll probably move to Stans after this
Let me know your favorite sealant for gravel off-road mountain bike which sort of this is the category that these are in
as I said before letting them to air out after it and beaded to put the
Sealant in the tyre didn't pop back off, which is a problem I was having in the past.
That's happy days. We've got about another hour of sunlight left for today. I'm going out for a ride