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Let me say rephrase that: "tubeless ready" tires around the corner.
I know the Crow is basically "tubeless ready" and a bunch of other tires can be run tubeless, but I feel better knowing that there is a full knobbed tire coming out that was engineered to be run tubeless. I know I am not a 29'er rider (yet), but this is one of my last reasons for holding out getting shot down in flames.
From cyclingnews.com:
Bontrager grows both taller and wider
As is the case with the new Gary Fisher and Trek mountain bike models, Bontrager's wheel division also continues its development of components for the 29er market. Last year's Race Lite 29 wheelset has now been eclipsed with the advent of a Race X Lite version. The new upper-end offering sports a tubeless-ready 475g rim laced with 14/16g double-butted DT spokes to a pair of hubs based on DT Swiss' top-end 240 design. Naturally, Bontrager will offer several new tubeless-ready 29er tires to mount on the new hoops, including its extant Jones ACX and Jones XR tread patterns as well as a new Dry X. When combined with Bontrager's Super Juice sealant, the new wheel and tire combo is said to drop a whopping 315g from last year's Race Lite 29 wheelset and standard tubed tires.
I know the Crow is basically "tubeless ready" and a bunch of other tires can be run tubeless, but I feel better knowing that there is a full knobbed tire coming out that was engineered to be run tubeless. I know I am not a 29'er rider (yet), but this is one of my last reasons for holding out getting shot down in flames.
From cyclingnews.com:
Bontrager grows both taller and wider
As is the case with the new Gary Fisher and Trek mountain bike models, Bontrager's wheel division also continues its development of components for the 29er market. Last year's Race Lite 29 wheelset has now been eclipsed with the advent of a Race X Lite version. The new upper-end offering sports a tubeless-ready 475g rim laced with 14/16g double-butted DT spokes to a pair of hubs based on DT Swiss' top-end 240 design. Naturally, Bontrager will offer several new tubeless-ready 29er tires to mount on the new hoops, including its extant Jones ACX and Jones XR tread patterns as well as a new Dry X. When combined with Bontrager's Super Juice sealant, the new wheel and tire combo is said to drop a whopping 315g from last year's Race Lite 29 wheelset and standard tubed tires.
