Donāt have to worry about tube ripping, allows you to use less tire pressure, if such a hub were to be made, many more tire sizes would be available. Overall less flats in my opinion. Tires are also better quality, less wobble.
Iām interested in this as well. If somebody makes these hubs with offset center and with standard bold pattern like MBS or Trampa so that common belt pulleys and gear drives can be used with it that would be instabuy from me.
I will be attempting this with a set of bergs soon. Iāll keep you posted with results. This method worked great on several of my mountain bikeshttps://youtu.be/zI9DM34LHAo
Those MTB rims and tires are āTubeless Readyā. They are made for tubeless conversion in mind. The rim has bead seat and bead lock, so the tubeless tire can sit properly and securely. Tubeless sealant slime will probably not be enough for the conversion. Iām not too familiar with Bergs, but do they have this feature? Anyway, Iām waiting for your results.
While I would like this to work since I have a ton of flats on Bergs, there is one big difference between then and MB rim in the video, being that the Bergs splits in half. I am not sure that the tape will be enough to seal it.
But on the other hand, if you succeed, you will save a lot of people, a lot of money.
Kaly new hubs split as well and they were supposed to be tubeless. I also just noticed that they donāt have the bead seat and bead lock, so maybe Bergs will work fine.
Iāve done tubeless conversions on both tubed rims/tires and tubeless ready tires using stand sealant with good results. I agree the lock makes a difference but above 40psi I donāt suspect Iāll have issues but weāll see
Tubeless on such a small rim makes barely any difference. The only reason to do it is for monoblock rims, and that would require deep seats for tyre changes⦠putting tubeless on a split rim is a waste of time
Itās a wank factor. It saves 30g of rotational weight.
On the con side, thereās higher risk of puncture, or they will use a thicker tyre which is then heavier. You also canāt use a regular pump, need a boost to seat the tyre or use sealant.