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Tube or Tubeless? '78 KZ1000 Ltd. mags
- jtate1000
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Quick question: Tube or tubeless tires on the stock mags on my '78 KZ1000 Ltd? I'm about to order them today, and my current tires are still rideable so don't want to deflate them to check and see. Thanks!
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321,000 miles on KZ's that I can remember. Not going to see any more.
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Last year I was riding and got a flat in Timbuktu and I went to the gas station and bought some fix a flat and it squirted though the stem. If I had tubless setup I could have made it home and then taken the wheel off for repair. Instead I was stranded and had to call someone to come pick me up and leave my bike overnight to get it the next day.
So short story long, I prefer tubeless. Update your bike to the 21st century.:lol:
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the 78 is a tube type rim it does not have a safety bead so it can come of the rim very easily. please do not try running it tubeless as it can be very dangerous. it's not worth your life. you only have two wheels it is very important that you do everything you can to keep rubber on them as much as possible.
Tim is right......78 mags have tubes....i had mine changed
out last year and the guy i had do it said the tube in mine hadnt been made in 20 years....:blink:
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Also, wouldn't the tube put the same pressure on the tire and make it pop off the rim anyway? I've also heard to never run a tube-type rim without a tube, but how would that make the tire come off? Not questioning it, jut want to understand why.
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