I also wonder can you "slime" them (yes you will be upping the Heat but could lower the risk of catastrophic failure).
Actually I believe Slime and the like reduce heat or at least dissipate it better.
Slimed my car the other month after years of thinking about it. Not infallible for punctures but then you just ram a gluey plug in and pump up which is the whole point of tubeless for me. FWIW gluey plugs also can fail I found: then you take the tyre off and go to the menders for an inner patch. And it seems you can ride flat OK on tubliss but the tyre will get very very hot even at slow speeds. Tried this on an XT in Mali once with not choice and it wrecked the tyre in 20km.
..please keep us up todate...
Will do. Contacted the UK distribs and have a trip coming up on an 18/21 bike running new TKCs. Shame they're not in 17 - maybe it's a too obvious road bike size? Anyway it's same/cheaper and a better solution than those tyre balls and more flexible than mousses, IMO
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btw, will be trying one these too: probably instant landfill but worth a tenner to try with a bikepump as back up.
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