How Tubeless Tires Work, with Stans President Mike Bush
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Mike Bush is the President of Stans, a brand whose founder Stan Koziatek pioneered the use of tubeless tires in mountain biking. Today the Stans brand designs and markets its own line of popular wheels and tubeless tire accessories to keep mountain bikers rolling.
For most mountain bikers, tubeless tire sealant is basically magic, and Mike gives us one of the best explanations we’ve heard for how the stuff actually works. Of course tire sealant is just one piece of the inflation puzzle, so we spend a lot of time talking about rims and also tires.
Is carbon a better material for building rims than aluminum? Are 30mm-wide rims becoming the standard? Listen in to hear the answers to these questions and more. There’s also additional info about the Stans brand at NoTubes.com.
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| 1:02.8 | Hey, everybody. |
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| 1:05.7 | My name is Jeff. |
| 1:07.2 | And today my guest is Mike Bush. |
| 1:10.0 | Mike is the president of Stans, a brand whose founder Stan |
| 1:14.4 | Kogiatic pioneered the use of tubeless tires in mountain biking. Today the Stan's brand designs and |
| 1:21.7 | markets its own line of popular wheels and tubeless tire accessories to keep mountain bikers rolling. Thanks for joining us, Mike. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, thanks for having me. It's great. Well, it's been almost 20 years since Stan first designed |
| 1:35.5 | as tubeless tire sealant. What has it taken to get us to this point where tubes are pretty |
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