hello all,

need some views on whether to have tube or just tubeless for my tyre....
my bike is Honda Ex-5......
recently....its quite frequent facing the problems of punctured on my way to and from office....

for sure...those mobile "rescuer" will charge RM20-RM25 per tube if we need their help to fix our tyre....
or else....just walk your way to any nearby workshop.....

yesterday...i went to change my tyre....
one guy at the workshop suggested to me to change to tubeless for my tyre...
it will involve installation of few things....
so that....there is no need of tube anymore....
everytime our tyre hit nails or anything with sharp edges....
hole been made will automatically be pasted by some kind of material reside inside the tyre during the installation....
rougly....that guy quoted me for the price of RM30....
and he said that....the tubeless feature can last until that tyre "botak"....

any comments, please?
anyone have experience installing that tubeless feature...?

thanks

If u are using sport rim.... of course you can opt for tubeless tyre....

change to sport rim and tubeless.... kena paku one in 6 month..... quite save...

i use tubeless now. even i didnt drive for 2 month also didnt pancit

errr.....
i guess most of you are referring to your CAR, rite?

i'm not sure how similar would it be with my motorbike....
coz i'm not sure about that sport rim issue...

try to asked mat rempit which is better lol...

me use suzuki rc80 using sport rim

ok...out of topic for a while....

i've heard that this sport rim is not that durable compared to the original rim....
especially if used to ride with partner....

if alone...yeah...most of my friend suggest to convert to sport rim...

the tubeless thing u describe is actually a kind of mixture they pout into the tyre....

not tubeless like a normal tubeless tyre....
go ask ur motor shop to show u the thing....
it got power and liquid, when mix together will create foam like condition and when puncture will plug the hole...

and oh... no need tube since it got its own rim rubber that cover the lidi hole...

tubeless tyre need rm60++

This post has been edited by gyny: Jul 24 2007, 10:34 AM

haaaa....
that is the one i'm talking about....
thanks dude....

btw...what do u think.....?
should i opt for it...or remain with tube style...?
do u have any experience using it?

what is its pro and cons?

No... I was refering to bike tyres..... if you want to use tubeless tyre, need to use sport rims, tubeless tube...... as sport rims don't have the lidi holes....
unless u are refering to the chemical sealent that ppl pour into the tyre tube.....

use tubeless, easier maintenance & less problemo.
but you will need sportrims. durability same issue, depending how you use oni. Mostly sport rims problemo is bearing oni, causing 'gelong' or out of alignment / balance.

bike also got sport rim ma. Tubeless concept is the same..regardless on car or motorcycle.

tubeless is my choice.. been riding my bike for more than 9 months, and it didn't show any sign of leakage whenever i check the tyre pressure at petrol station, whereas the tube one would need to be pumped every month or 2..

But tubeless tyre will cost about RM 60++ and rm 10 for the tube... if I'm not mistaken....

tubelss is better

this tubeless u r referring to is not the one that i mention (with chemical sealent installed in normal tyre), rite?

use tubeless lah...u change a pair of sport rim only cost u RM120~~
but u can safe ur self to push motorbike along the highway or pay xtra to those call & change~~
BTW, u need a pair of tyre like dunlop tt900 which is can use either tube or tubeless~~

I use tubeless.
1: need sport rims, mine cost RM160
2: need tubless tyres ~RM60

One thing about tubeless, you can use it as long as the tyre does not break or until you are out of thread on tyre. Even if the tyre has a big hole, just bring to the shop and they fix it. It takes 2 mins to tampal a tubless tyre compare to more than 5 mins on a normal tube tyre. Also if you use your motorcycle a lot and I know in KL-PJ area lots of paku on road. Maybe intentionally. This thing a life saver. Worse comes to worse you can substitute air with branches leaves etc.

If you really want kebal tyres, go for tayar mati. Really kebal until run out of thread.

run flat tyres....haha! now adts tayar kebal.......