How easy to use are tubeless tyres on mountain bikes and are they easy to fit on tubeless rims?
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Tubular tyres are really only for road bikes. They will be thin, with little tread and not at all appropriate for off road use. They won’t fit your mountain bike wheels!
Edit: I stand corrected. I was thinking of ‘tubies’ as used in road bikes.
The previous answer is wrong, Tubeless tyres, also referred to as UST, have the primary benefit of avoiding needless pinch punctures when running at low pressure. They are specifically designed to enable the rider to run varying amounts of pressure to suit the riding conditions. They will require a Tubeless / UST specific rim, or a conversion kit, to be used without a tube. They can however have a tube fitted if they become damaged during use. There are many combinations of rim and tyre some are easy some are hard, they dont fit like road bike tubeless tyresi.e glued on they fit like car tyres. if you dont have UST rims then you can use a product like Stans no tubes http://www.notubes.com/tubeless_about.php All the major MTB tyre manufacturers make tubless versions of there tyres.
Hope this helps