Showerthought: Everyone's going tubeless these days, but I've had way fewer flats with basic inner tubes.

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Honestly what gets me is the mess factor everyone ignores. You get a flat with tubeless and suddenly you're dealing with sticky sealant all over your hands, your garage floor, just a whole thing. I've patched a tube at the side of the road in five minutes with a simple kit. With tubeless, sometimes the sealant doesn't even plug the hole and you're putting a tube in anyway. Makes you wonder if all that extra setup is really solving a problem or just creating new, messier ones.

stellac972d ago

Yeah, that tracks with how we're always chasing the new thing (even when the old thing worked fine, you know?). I've seen it with everything from apps to kitchen gadgets, where an update just makes stuff more complicated for no real gain. Sometimes the simple, tried-and-true method is just better, flats or not.

oliviak737h ago

Stella's right about new stuff often overcomplicating things, but tubeless really does prevent most small flats that would stop a tube. That's the actual gain, not just the new thing factor.