Re: [TR] Tire/Tube Q.

[John Herrera <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>]

> Dayton now offers "tubeless" wire wheels. These are fairly ordinary wire>
wheels and look exactly the same from the outside, but the area inside the>
wheel where there is normally a rubber band is instead filled with silicone>
RTV to seal the spokes. I put a set on a Stag in 2004 and they still seem> to
hold air just fine.> > Randall

I had a set of these "tubeless" wire wheels on my old racecar and they
wouldn't hold air. I ended up putting tubes in. Maybe the fault was in my
Dunlop Racing bias ply tires, though.

John H.
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