GrindingGears

No one here is going to like this, but just get the Bambu. I would get the P2S not the X2D, but that’s me.

Yes they are very Apple like, there’s all sorts of community hate, but blah blah blah, it’s still been the only plug and forget printer I’ve ever owned. Thing just sits on my workbench, no fuss no muss, it just belts out flawless prints print after print. I’ve been in this hobby for quite a while now, and I’m done screwing around with these things. If you enjoy that, great please continue, but especially for someone like a family member!? Bambu unless you want to be constantly hand holding the entire time. They really are the McDonalds of 3d printers, for better or worse.

It lighter than a tube on a dirtbike. It makes the rotating mass less.

On a mountain bike the amount of material you’d need would definitely be a little bit of added weight vs tubeless. But it probably wouldn’t be a whole lot more substantial than tires full of sealant. Certainly wouldn’t be any more than these doubledown sidewall tires, which would be substantially heavier. The only way they fail is if the tire fully comes off the bead. We use rim locks on dirtbikes to prevent that, but dirtbikes also weight 250 pounds, and they produce a lot of power under throttle. You wouldn’t need that with a mountain bike tire.

It would beat flat tires trailside, having to constantly reinflate a tire that’s been sitting, and it would eliminate the mess of sealant.

He’d like em a lot better, if he took the tread off and stuffed them inside a tire. Still wonder to this day how mountain biking hasn’t picked up on Mousses. They came pretty close with those cush cores, but they still weren’t really meant to be run flat. I run mousses in my dirtbike, and they generally kick ass. A big miserable to install the first couple times until you get the hang of it, but awesome.

I generally like traction.