Tubed to Tubeless Tyres

For the past ten years we have travelled up to Strathpeffer to a cottage, and from there we travel around Scotland for a fortnight, on one of the trips coming home my wife had a rear wheel puncture, which completely wrecked the tyre and inner tube, it wasn't very pleasant to say the least, so I realised then how dangerous tube tyres can be as you get no warning before the tyre goes dead flat, so I decided to do something about the situation.

We decided to get new wheels built with aluminium rims and new hubs, because the Triumph wheels weigh a ton, so this I what I did to make them tubeless .

I cleaned the inside of the rim and stuck silver tape right around the rim on top of the spokes, I then gave it two coats of Hammerite paint, and finally put a coating of Stikflix which is a combination of no nails and silicone, it's used in the building trade extensively, it needs a couple of days to completely go off.  Since then we have covered approx 20,000 miles each and have  had several sets of tyres fitted to both bikes, there is no signs of any deteriation, and the tyres never loose any air.  Since I've done mine there have been lots of others who have copied the system, although I don't claim to be the inventor of it.