Tubeless Tire VS Tubeb Tire

Modenas GT128 are already equipped with tubeless tire . Some other models need to upgrade from tire with tube to tubeless tire with an addition to the price.

I never know about tubeless tire before I bought my GT128. My knowledge about motorcycle are totally zero.

All I know when I buy this motorcycle are the sport rim looks cool. That's all I care.

But then after few reading through Internet, I realized buying this motorcycle with its tubeless tire is a good things.

First, if the tire got a puncture, I can repair it myself. To repair a punctured tire, we just need a simple kit. Everyone including someone without proper knowledge about motorcycle (like me) can get the job done.

This is the kind of tire punctured repair kit.

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This kit is easy to find from local store or hardware. Me myself buy it for less then RM5 from Mr.DIY store in Shah Alam. I also find it available at Giant Hypermarket.

Maybe I will make a tutorial about how to use it.But that means we need to wait until my bike get puncture, maybe?

In the mean time you can watch on YouTube on how to use it. Actually it is the same kit the mechanic use to repair punctured on car's tire.

Here a video from YouTube about how to repair your punctured tire.

It easy right?

If you are using the tubed tire, it will need a lot of tools and skills to repair the tire. You need to open the nuts and screw, take off the whole tire from the motorcycle. Then take out the tube from inside the tire, patch the hole, put it back(which is not easy) into tire, and put the tire back into motorcycle. You loses so many time and energy doing that.

And don't ask how your hand will look like after that.

 The next benefit from using tubeless tire is, the safety. Normally, when a tube tire run over a sharp object like nails or pieces of glasses on the road, the tire will puncture.

But with tubeless tire, it not that easy to puncture. If your tire hit a nail,for example, and the nail stuck to the tire, it will not puncture.

This is because the nail itself have plug the hole. Me myself did have to nails stuck to the rear tire for a week.I did not remove the nails because my tire did't become flat.

So I let it be at the tire until my friend sit at the back and the tire start to lose the air as it bear the weight of my friend.

This unique characteristic make tubeless tire ideal for long journey. First your tire are not easy to puncture even if you run over a sharp objects.
Secondly, even it did puncture, it is easy to repair it by using simple tools.

So that left me with a conclusion that tubeless tire is better. and it is really suitable for someone who did't know a lot about motorcycle repairs.