Warranty Disclaimer

Hi Schwalbe, Considering how many riders are using sealant based systems to run conventional tires tubeless, for less weight and higher performance, perhaps you could take advantage of this as an oppurtunity instead of viewing it as a problem. I am sure even professional racers, sponsored by Schwalbe, are using conventional tires with sealants, so the disclaimer seems pretty weak at best: “if everyone is doing it…” Why not partner up with a sealant manufacturer (No Tubes) and test tires until you can offer an acceptable version of your tires “tubeless ready”? I have used the Racing Ralph conventional tire with sealant with no adverse problems or degradation whatsoever.

I’ve been running a pair of little alberts for the past 4 months and noticed several of the tyre knobs have been torn off, and I have been using inner tubes. I put it down to sharp stones and general abuse out on the trails. Having just converted to Stan’s No-Tubes, it will be interesting to see if there is a noticible increase in the loss of knobs. Aside from the warranty issue, even No-Tubes advise not to use kevlar bead folding tyres, so it will be dual experiment.

Right now there is a kind of war between tire manufacturers and Stan’s NoTubes. Voiding warranties, warnings, and so on… Currently so many MTB’ers already switched to Stan’s despite of those warnings. There’s a quite number of users of other sealants too. DIY systems use even sealants for tractors. There’s quite lot of potential customers out there. Use it to your advantage! Dear Tire Manufacturer! If you can’t invent your own sealant because of patents, R&D costs, etc., then invent a spray to protect your tires against those sealants. A customer who want to use NoTubes would spray it onto inner wall of a tire. Sealant would only contact punctured areas where it’s needed and would not dissolve rubber in other areas. There are so many riders out there who love superlight tires like Yours and NoTubes system. They’ll be glad to shed some $$ for a little more confidence. And you still may say you do not guarantee the full protection. :) Biker

How long does this take to blister?

Umm how come I have never experienced this with any other tire??

If you have your tires long enough for “blistering”, or delamination to occur…you are not riding enough! I have used conversions since Dec.2003, and have never had an issue, except with a M*xx*s Crossmark, which had a whole batch of bad tires. Oops, that would be all of them…

Anyway, as far as Scwalbe is concerned, I think the disclaimer is just a precaution against law suits, right? I know of people mixing their own sealants, using all kinds of epoxy gells even….

Does Schwalbe know that they have a bad batch of tires coming out or something and are trying to avoid warranty replacements?

You state that “The use of “self-sealing” products and/or aftermarket “sealant” systems for the purpose of converting a non-tubeless tire to tubeless, used either on non-UST rims or UST rims, will void any warranty given by the tire manufacturer”
If that is the case then why is Schwalbe in Germany and the UK using Doc Blue, a Schwalbe product used for sealing tubeless systems. The product states it will seal holes in tubes, tubulars and tubeless systems which sounds to me like it is universally friendly to all tire types.

http://www.schwalbe.com/gbl/en/bicycle/accessories/montage/?ID_Gesamt=32…

Ain’t no BS. One of the guys on the team was running stans and double flatted in a race. The tires were blistered and shot with hardly any miles on them