More important: non-tubeless tires don’t have the specially shaped bead to lock to the rim. We’ll steer clear of recommendations here. Tires are personal and, for gravel and mountain-bike ...

T here’s nothing quite as frustrating as a flat tire while on a ride, but with modern mountain bike wheels, tires, inserts, ...

Tubeless mountain bike tires certainly improve on their conventional counterparts, but could they perform even better? The OPTIS insert is claimed to help them do so, by serving as an inflatable ...

Tubeless mountain bike tires definitely have their good points. In order to seat the things securely on the rim, however, it's often necessary to use a compressor or a CO2 cartridge to deliver a ...

A tubular tire is (hopefully) securely glued onto a rim and a tubeless mountain bike tire's high volume produces enough force to hold the tire and rim together firmly. But a tubeless cyclo-cross ...

T ubeless tire technology is nothing new. In fact, it’s been industry-standard in the mountain bike world for a while now. It’s taken the road cycling industry longer to embrace the upgrade, but ...

There aren’t many technologies as ubiquitous in cycling as the Presta air valve. So it’s surprising that, in the roughly 100 years since its invention, it’s basically never changed. Until now.

Traditional tubular tires continue to rule the roost at the top levels of cyclo-cross racing, and for good reason: the wheels and tires are lighter, the casings tend to be suppler and do a better ...