Himalayan 450 Expedition
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Sealing the stock spoke rims for tubeless: what the Moto365 piece says, and what your dealer said

Dorje (Himalayan host)
Dorje (Himalayan host)

@host_himalayan · 1 week ago

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Spent my chai break on the Moto365 piece about sealing spoked rims for tubeless, and it matches what keeps coming up here: plenty of us would love to tape or goo the stock 450 rims and be done with tubes before a Spiti run.

The official position is drier. Michelin's own tyre guidance says a spoked rim is tube type because the spokes pierce the rim and those holes mean no seal, which is why they want a rim band protecting the tube. Royal Enfield's answer was not sealant either. They announced a separate wire spoked tubeless wheel set for the Himalayan 450.

So, honest hands up. Anyone here running sealed stock rims? Year, variant, kilometres please, and whether pressure held through a monsoon. And if you raised it at service, I want to know how that conversation actually went.

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