a carbon seat post and handle bars will save a few more grams.

 

OFFS!

will have to waigh b4 and after

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you not got them things on yet ?

CR out of stock of disks until April so ordered them from Winstanley bikes, now waiting for delivery.

 

Hopefully have everything else.

 

Can I go tubeless on Smart Sams or Marathon plus MTBs?

 

Going to leave the Mary where it is as I do not fancy removing it (ever).

 

Was going to get a Mary or like you HD for the rear. So off road tyres on sDuro rims and put either Smart Sams or Marathon plus MTBs on the new rims for road and summer.

 

Like the Marathons but they are 2.1 and look a bit narrow compared to the Sams.

as long as the tyre says tl ready then yes as for changing the mary it will go on and off a bit more easy now you have used it a bit.

Winstanley only have one disk in stock so still looking for the second

 

Not a project for this weekend then.

CR out of stock of disks until April so ordered them from Winstanley bikes, now waiting for delivery.

 

Hopefully have everything else.

 

Can I go tubeless on Smart Sams or Marathon plus MTBs?

 

Going to leave the Mary where it is as I do not fancy removing it (ever).

 

Was going to get a Mary or like you HD for the rear. So off road tyres on sDuro rims and put either Smart Sams or Marathon plus MTBs on the new rims for road and summer.

 

Like the Marathons but they are 2.1 and look a bit narrow compared to the Sams.

 

The Magic Marys are the least puncture resistant of your tyres so would benefit most from tubeless.

 

Putting Marathon Pluses on your new lightweight rims is a bit daft given Marathons are among the heaviest push bike tyres.

The Mary is SG and I would say the same protection as the Smart Sams greenguard, but you need to handle a Mary to know what a lump it is.

 

Marathon plus MTB's are the next level similar to the Big Ben's in thickness of puncture protection.

 

The wheel weight is a new consideration, perhaps not too important for me.

 

What I really wanted was a set of easy swap wheels (tyres), but that is not so easy to achieve. I am hopeful though!

Still need one Tektro wave 180 mm disk before MAY!!!!

 

So SW any thoughts ?

take the rotors off the wheels you have, its only 12 bolts

I would like two sets (4) of interchangeable wheels.

 

I am not a great tinkerer so will find the fourth Tektro disk and then hope it all lines up!

 

Still waiting for the magnet for the speed sensor as well, there's always something.

you do have a bike stand right?

No... it lives in the shed.

 

I just wanted another set of easy to fit tyres, is that toooo much to ask.

 

The answer is I need to buy another bike for the road, Chris and I were chatting about this.

 

I am going to try to get another set of rims to fit my bike, ( note to anyone else wanting to do the same, wait for me to succeed or fail, I am a bit on the fail side at the moment as it is a money pit with no up side, so far) oh yes I am going to succeed, really.

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it makes life a lot more easy if you have one, id go mad if i never had mine

 

why do you want another set of wheels?

 

why do you want another set of wheels?

 

To save me buying another ebicycle for the road !!!

 

I really wanted to be able to do hard core with Chris (using Mary's ) and also change to hybrid Marathon Plus MTB or Smart Sams and ride a bit of road and some off road with out the constant ar$e ache of changing tyres.

 

I will continue to try with a second set of rims as I am committed but I can not be the first rider to want both from the same machine ???

you need balls and dont use the brakes if you dont crash you are not going fast enough.

I am finally 50% of the way there. One tube one tubeless. The HD is so tight it inflated with my normal tyre pump.

 

If anyone else fancies a second set of wheels to make things easy DON'T, buy a second bike, nothing fits!

 

It has taken me ages to get everything together. Adjust this, change that, get another of those.

 

It was too nice this afternoon to take the Mary off the front so went with what I had for a nice trip out in the sun.

 

The HD is a good off road tyre, but a PITA just like the Mary to fit.

 

Had to try a bit of off road once I was sure the brakes worked and the wheel was not going to fall off and the speed sensor was fitted and the brakes realigned and the sqewers tight ( sorry to keep going on about it being a PITA ).

 

SG Magic Mary or Hans Dampf, no easy way to fit at all.

 

Watched the video on fitting difficult tyres by pushing the tyre into the well of the rim to make fitting sooo easy. In reality once you have the one side in there is no room in the well for the other side, another urban myth.

 

Specialist tool I hear you say ?

 

For anyone interested the tool does not come in two parts, but ends up that way after trying to fit a HD ? I did say Money pit.

 

 

So back to a great big screwdriver wrapped in tape and just heave again.

 

I used baby powder to lubricate the tyre rather than fairy liquid as I thought it might contaminate the slime? Read the sealant instructions and found nothing about lubrication.

 

So building up courage to remove the Mary and refit on my front rim.

 

In all seriousness if I had a broken glass or ring pull cut puncture there is absolutely no way you would ever remove the tyre to effect a repair in the field.

 

To put the slime in I used a big syringe on the valve once the tyre was fitted and it worked well. If I had put it in the bottom of the open tyre before fitting there would be none in the tyre but plenty on me and the floor at the end.

 

I am not looking forward to removing and then refitting the Mary at all.

 

And bloody yes there are nasty scratches on my new rims..... self inflicted !

man that is some huge scratches get a permanent marker pen n fill them in then you wont see them

 

maybe take the tyre and rim to halfords hand over 5 quid and make them suffer pmsl

 

then bet them if they cant fit it in 30mins its free or if they can extra 5 quid

This is putting me off Magic Mary's. I need to be able to get tyres off and on and the Nobby Nics are so easy to remove/replace that I don't need a tyre lever.

So what do you think with 50% of the job done ?

 

The Mary was a lot easier to get back on than when new, no fairy liquid but a big screw driver taped up. So it can be done, maybe the Kevlar ones loosen up after a bit.

 

Had to roll the wheel and tube a bit to coax it to blow up with the foot pump but managed it easily enough without too much stress or mess. Went out for a ride to just check nothing fell off, ran the Mary with 40 psi in all seemed well. Still to reduce the pressure right down for proper TL riding.

 

Next is the decision of what to put on the original rims ?

So what do you think with 50% of the job done ?

 

see looks like a different bike but what do you think of the lighter wheels to the stock old ones?

 

you still need a fox front shock and some blue peddles and blue grips to finish it off

the best thing you did was to get rid of those mudguards;)

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