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Old 10-01-2006, 11:33 PM
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i was just curious what the differnce would be for launching with or with tubes or with out and if it maid a huge differnence or not...
Old 10-02-2006, 09:48 AM
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Had better 60' tubeless, stiff sidewall 29X10. Most of us run tubeless around here.
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Tubeless is the way to go. Less problems. I have heard some horror stories of guys with tubes breaking the valves on the from spinning on the rim and then you got a flat and needless to say the wall isnt a very soft thing.
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cool thanks guys!!
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I run tubeless cause it makes the wheel lighter! Less rotating mass :-D
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I had a problem in my nova where the tube would move and bunch up in the burnout and give me a down track vibration. Tubeless for many years in many cars w/o problems.
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Another tubeless vote. Some will likely chime in and say run the tubes.
Keep in mind if you are spinning the tire on the rim (mark the sidewall to find out), then you may want to screw the tires to the rim, and then it's advisable to run tubes.

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I looked into this before I bought my new tires... and the consensus tha I found is that the tires generally work better without tubes, and the only people that I could find that were running them were guys that street drove their cars with the tires screwed to the rims. I was looking into screwing my tires as I was spinning them last year, but I think it was due to the tires being rather old, too much soap being used when they were mounted, as I found out when the old tires were removed, and the M6 was shocking the tire alot harder then I think the th400 will... even off the transbrake,it probably won't be as bad.



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