00:00I wrote a story about predictions and trends in bike tech for 2026 and one of my picks was
00:06we'll sort of see the return of inner tubes and that's not to say that road tubeless is going to
00:12go away or disappear it's that I think more riders are going to consider inner tubes as a
00:16viable alternative to tubeless because for you know in certain situations it makes more sense
00:23for instance let's say I'll give you a personal example right I have a few road bikes one bike
00:29I ride almost every week sometimes daily that bike I have set up tubeless but I have other bikes that
00:37maybe I ride once a week sometimes less you know they come out for special occasions I used to set
00:44up all my road wheels tubeless but then I realized that like for bikes that I don't ride that often
00:48I still have to put in the same amount of maintenance to keep those wheels set up tubeless you still
00:54have
00:54to refresh sealant you have to clean out the wheels you have to do all that regardless of whether
00:58you're riding our bike the bike or not so in those situations it makes more sense to set up the
01:04bike
01:04with a tube you know particularly with a high-end TPU or latex inner tube there's not really a performance
01:11disadvantage and there's a hell of a lot less maintenance so while I don't think we're going to
01:17see road tubeless go away I think we'll see a lot of riders kind of start to rethink whether tubeless
01:23or a nice tube setup is the right setup for their circumstances
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