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Originally Posted by bossy22
I used to ride only Schwalbe's, but then I started having issues with running their tubeless tires. Their UST tires were great, but their tubeless ones were a pain in the ass. I switched to Specialized and have really liked them. They seat really well, and they are a lot cheaper than the Schwalbe's.
Do you use a valve core remover when doing Orange Seal? Makes life so easy. Get the tire on and seated, pull the core, put in the Orange Seal through the stem, put back the core and inflate. No hassle, no mess.
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next time I am at the LBS I am going to pick up a valve removal tool to make the process easier.
for now I am really liking the maxxis ardent - frustrating part is that I got the schwalbe's set up the first time, and they went flat. it dawned on my that perhaps the rims were not a tubeless set up, so I took the tire off and ran some gorilla tape around the rim. when I went to reseat the schwalbe's - there was so much gap between the rim and tire that it seemed they would never seat, whereas the maxxis were much tighter to the rim - hated to dip into my private stock as I was saving those tires for my trip to revelstoke in august - but I'll just have to get new ones - I guess.