Tubeless tyre conversion

[Mike711]

Has anyone here tried converting 1100E wheels to run tubeless tyres? It's commonplace on spoked wheels especially in the adventure bike world & seems to have been done on a few other makes such as https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=99834.0

Please, no advice on if it's a good idea, I just want to know if anyone has actually done it successfully on a star wheeled Suzuki?

[Gixer1460]

Not offering advice but as far as I know, rim profile differs between tubed and non tubed in the area of the bead - so do it at your own risk! Probably makes no difference on a Guzzi LOL!

[neilw]

Replace the wheels with slightly later katana sd rims, already tubeless

 

[johnr]

try to find a set of kat 400 rims, much lighter than the stock snowflake rims, but the same snowflake pattern so almost indistinguishable from stock (tho 18 inch front not 19 inch) but as well as being tubeless, theyre loads wider so can take wider tyres and the front can carry much bigger disks so youve still got the stock look, bot everything is improved!

[Mike711]

10 hours ago, johnr said:

try to find a set of kat 400 rims, much lighter than the stock snowflake rims, but the same snowflake pattern so almost indistinguishable from stock (tho 18 inch front not 19 inch) but as well as being tubeless, theyre loads wider so can take wider tyres and the front can carry much bigger disks so youve still got the stock look, bot everything is improved!

Great idea thanks, I'll start looking.