Has anyone tried the new Meepo airless tires?

Has anyone tried those? Even if not, what is your opinion to those wheels?

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But are they really airless? Or just tubeless.

@frame you collect all of the wheels. You tried these yet?

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i’ve been in contact with meepo about getting a set, 2weeks ago they said its still not ready yet, i haven’t follow up with them recently

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airless ≠ tubeless

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They’re tubeless. I have high hopes but I’m not sure how much I wanna support linnpower for the reasons mentioned in the other meepo thread.

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i tried to run the meepo cyclone tire with barely any air in the tube, it does work…for my weight…going 10kmh…for 300m :rofl:

not recommended tho

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This was a rhetorical question… It says tubeless in the listing :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I ordered a set, says they will ship on the 10th, but I likely won’t be able to ride them for a while, need to have an adapter made so they fit my SS mini Helical drives

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Since that is a 3 layer hub, do they have gaskets on the 2 interfaces to hold pressure or you just have to pray to any gods that be that you don’t bump something and introduce a slight dent in that interface that will leak all your air?

not so sure about that, guess whoever gets it can take it apart to check :joy:

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I mean it has 2 red layers and 1 silver layer, and it’s held together with bolts…I’d have to assume its got multiple parts

dunno, we will see when someone has them on hand to rip it apart

Surgery for science

always, i want to get a set, but i don’t have 400 bucks spare cash to throw around :smiling_face_with_tear:

Yeah they look like beadlocks

I don’t envy the people who will fighting to get a 165mm tire both lips of the center of the hub

isn’t that more difficult to install, but u can run super low psi? i don’t understand much about beadlock tire / hub

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For a bead lock you have the center of the hub with sealing surfaces on the outside, so the entire center of the hub has to make it past a wall of the tire, then the outside edges of the hub bolt on from the outside

Getting the hub in the tire (bead lock) is significantly more difficult than getting the tire in the hub (standard) but yeah you get to run it basically flat (will wear down the tire much faster obviously but no issues with the tire slipping on the hub or the side walls collapsing, also there’s no fuckery about getting the bead to seat

hmm probably have to read up on that quite a bit more, i kinda get the idea what u saying, just need to visualize it with youtube videos :joy: