How to Install Tubeless Tires with IFHT - Video

Feb 2, 2018 at 12:29
by Sarah Moore  


Jason from IFHT goes through the process of installing tubeless tires in this step by step tutorial. Worth a watch even if you're a tubeless pro familiar with ze pump...


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54 Comments
  • 74 12
 I kept waiting for the funny part - would it be getting sealant everywhere? How ridiculously tough it can be to get the tire back on? trying to get the tire seated and stop spraying goo everywhere? Nope. A commercial with no real tips or tricks brought to you by Maxxis and Stans. I guess everybody's got to eat...
  • 15 1
 Man I love the tire pop song hahaha
  • 13 4
 ya, was kinda disappointed with lack of humor, actually useful tips, or generally anything really worth watching. It started out pretty well, though. But went nowhere fast.
  • 5 1
 They are pandering to the crowd that watches mtb vlogs by the 100,000's. No need to be creative and funny anymore on youtube.
  • 4 1
 We showed what actually happened that day. The only "plan" for this video was to film me setting up a tubeless tire on a rim. Had sealant exploded out the side or if any other mishaps happened we would have included it. Tubeless is made out to be this ridiculously tough and messy job, but if you do things properly and use the proper equipment (tubeless ready rims, tires, etc) then you shouldn't have a problem.
  • 30 1
 Noooooo, don't slide a metal tire lever along the rim when taking the tire off! My bike mechanic OCD-ness is about to start downing Xanax like they're Tic Tacs!
  • 4 1
 Yeah I agree. What was up with scraping the steel along the carbon rim??? Nope never.
  • 3 0
 @fattyheadshok: not a carbon rim
  • 1 0
 I know... I cant believe they didnt use a polymer lever with the consistency of cheese. AND THATS A PRO TIP! Kill me.
  • 1 0
 Metal tire lever did not make contact with the rim! But I know what you mean, plastic levers obviously has much less risk associated with them.
  • 12 2
 I don't know if this is wrong but I put the tire on the rim fully and then squirt sealant through the opened valve stem using a syringe with a stop valve. Then rescrew the core and inflate. No mess! Also works well for checking how much sealant is left in the tire without having to take the tire off the rim.

I bought a set of those milkit valve stems but they were worthless. They're cool in that they only let air/liquid through one way when the core is removed. So no worry about splashing fluid everywhere while opening the core, but for some reason that made it impossible to check the tire pressure with a gauge. No matter what I did, it would just read 0. I had milkit replace them and still no luck. Went back to Stan's and haven't had any problems.
  • 5 2
 @gbeaks33 works well but you inevitably get sealant in the core threads
  • 5 0
 I've been doing both methods for years - makes no diff, other than the syringe leaves me with less sealant on my floor and rims, tires...
  • 2 1
 Well you have to own syringe and tube for this method. Which I don't.
  • 2 0
 @colincolin: They cost next to nothing on eBay if you wanted to give it a try...
  • 2 1
 And you don't either if you remove the valve core. Use the small 2oz bottles and pour directly in. You can then use them to measure out how much sealant you are using instead of just dumping it in like a moron @colincolin:
  • 10 0
 Misleading. He tells you how cool it's going to be and then at the end he's like- "now you're in a gang". What!? Crap. What I have I gotten myself into?
  • 3 0
 He's coming round with a tattoo gun tomorrow
  • 10 6
 Dry tire straight on the rim huh? No wonder it takes 50 psi to seat the tire. Use some dish soap suds or something - makes it so much easier.
  • 9 0
 Yeah... unless you use too much soap. Got frustrated with my tire not seating so I put a big ol squeeze of dawn into that soap bucket and really worked it around the rim with the brush. Then your tire blows soap bubbles for the next two days as your riding down the trail. Really get some funny looks from your riding buddies. I told em my tires had rabies. Takes longer for the sealant to work with all the dish soap as well. So just a little soap good. Lots of soap bad
  • 6 0
 I have a spray bottle of water with a tiny squirt of dish soap - just enough to cause suds. Just enough to wet the bead. Works perfectly.
  • 2 0
 i use pledge furniture wood polish. been doing that way for my gixxer for years.
  • 6 0
 MAN'S NOT HOT!!!!
  • 5 0
 the tire pop part hahahaha
  • 2 0
 Some tyres are almost impossible to seat on the rim, so I got an X tools tyre seating tool, best thing ever!
www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/x-tools-tyre-seating-tool/rp-prod122324
  • 1 0
 Used the wrong valve stem, the Bontrager MTB rim liners used a brass valve stem that has an O-ring seal that seats into the rim strip. Supposedly it keeps the valve stem from being damaged in the odd chance you were to strike something and impact the valve stem from the tire side. Also, not really all that informative, funny or original.
  • 1 0
 Looks like he's got a ghetto rim strip but then using a tubeless valve?
There seems to be some kind of rough cut rim strip anyway, what's going on there?
  • 4 0
 It's a Bontrager rim strip on a Bontrager rim.
  • 1 0
 I'd just like to say this video is kind of funny and not very helpful to people wanting to learn this with as little mess and effort as possible
  • 1 0
 I'd be weary about using pliers to tighten the valve nut. I've cracked a valve that way.
  • 7 0
 He said it is a pro tip and I guess he's right. It is a true pro tip in that it is for those who professionally install those tires but don't actually ride them. And when you go home after work you can't help but chuckle when you imagine your customer (preferably a dentist so you can make fun of her or him on PB) struggle to get the valve out when he or she has punctured out on the trail. In the pissing rain. During some enduro race. Missing time slot after time slot. All alone...

Just remember to never use a pro tip on your own bike.
  • 1 0
 The main issue is getting the valve out to pop in a tube if you get a flat on the trails. Hand-tight works fine, and you can actually get the valve out without tools.

Edit: @vinay we're saying the same thing. Sorry, just read your post more carefully. But your post is funnier.
  • 3 2
 you are actually supposed to seat the tire with no sealant then put in through the valve stem...
  • 1 0
 I like to do this so I can tell if my valve and tape are still good before I add a bunch of sealant. Oh ya, and to determine how awesome my tire is. The more Awesomer tires hold air without sealant!
  • 1 2
 The max is/ WTB rim combo on a lot of Santa Cruz bikes won't hold for 15 mins. Giants own set up will hold for more months with no sealant @vRidge:
  • 2 0
 The pump! Braaaap!
  • 1 1
 He forgot about the part where your friend thinks you are exited when you spill the sealant
  • 1 1
 You'll hear the tire ping or pong?...hmmm reminds me of the "bing, bing, bong, bong" of some idiot recently...Wink
  • 1 0
 "How to be a tubeless gang" LOL
  • 1 1
 That was good for a laugh. I wanna ride bikes with that guy.
  • 1 0
 Sick looking Remedy.
  • 1 1
 Was this Video meant to be ironic ?
  • 2 3
 what the song 2.51 ???

Big Grin
  • 4 0
 Big shaq - mans not hot
  • 5 6
 Tyre change? $20 and let the shop dude deal with that shit.
  • 9 2
 Wow, I know I'm more mechanically minded than most, but seriously...?
  • 10 1
 @andrew9: I have the reverse mitus touch with anything mechanical. It pisses me off to no end. A tubeless tyre change quickly turns into a nightmare goo shit everywhere I'm a circus on the tools. I've learnt 'just ride it' get someone not unco to service it, it cost less in the long run.
  • 2 1
 @andrew9: more common than you think - I've got riding mates that take their bikes to the shop for everything - gear adjustments, replacing spokes, fitting tyres. Then they are confounded when things don't work right when they come back. I've suggested it's that missing sense of quality thing (read "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance") to help them understand why this happens, but they have that mental block and label themselves as incapable....
  • 1 0
 @Otago: I can click, clickers set suspention and wind gear tension knobs like a WC pit mechanic.... however when a hex key touches a bolt, "Murphies Law' happens and it's threaded or locked as f*ck or some 1 in 100Million (which seem to be all of them) inbetween size.

When it's my money, "shit happens".

I think if I did a TAFE course or paid a mechanic in cartons to supervise (witness Murphy's Law) my servicing I could beat the jinx.
  • 1 1
 I liked it.
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