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Stelvio at the local dealer now

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GrahamNZ

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Today I had the opportunity to inspect a Stelvio for the first time. An interesting and probably very comfortable bike. Strangely, they are being imported here sans luggage but do have a rear carrier and pannier mountings.

Do the wheels use inner tubes?
 
Wayne

Thanks for your reply but I'm not sure what you mean. I know the tyres are "tubeless" type, but does the bike run inner tubes in them? Many bikes with spoked rims use tubeless tyres but with tubes in them, and some spoked rims run an internal sealing system over the spoke nipples. The older BMW GS system which allowed tubeless tyres without inner tubes was great but I think some of the recent models need inner tubes.

Does it matter? IMHO it does. I've repaired many puctures at the roadside, both with tubes and tubeless, and I know which is easier!
 
Tubeless = no tube.

Tubeless may be a little easier to plug, but I won't base a bike purchase on it.
I've had unpluggable flats on tubeless tires that I would have gotten home if it had been a tube that I could patch. And nothing is more exciting that a tubeless tire that loses air in just a couple of seconds and the bead unseats. That gets the adrenaline going.

BTW, From what I understand, each and every spoke nipple on the Stelvio has an o-ring seal. I fear those will all become slow leaks with time.
 
Wayne Orwig wrote:
BTW, From what I understand, each and every spoke nipple on the Stelvio has an o-ring seal. I fear those will all become slow leaks with time.
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Why would you be concerned?

I have had long email discussions with Woody @ Woodys wheel works about the possibility of lacing a smaller rim on and he has commented several times that the Alpina Stelvio rims are very good.
  • THE ALPINA WEB SITE IS HERE

Some inside info on the tubeless system is in the Pdf.
[file name=STS___Technical_Presentation.pdf size=363018]https://www.guzzitech.com/images/fbfiles/files/STS___Technical_Presentation.pdf[/file]
 
Thanks for the replies. Good to learn that there are no inner tubes in there. Still, I like the older BMW spoked-rim system better, but I guess it was patented.

Next question: Are the spokes self-cleaning?

For a true rough-terrain bike, wire-spoked wheels are still considered the best, but isn't the Stelvio really just an all-roads bike? Both my bikes with cast wheels cope just fine with gravel roads, so why choose the hassles of wire-spoked ones? Fashion perhaps?

Still, the Stevio looks great to me. Must try one to see how Guzzi is progressing.
 
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