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Ryan Burney Added a reply to What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/24/2025 5:40am I’m guessing you’re asking about the overlap on the Rim Saver. That section weighs about 10g on the Midweight. For comparison, a brass presta valve is around 18g and an aluminum one is about 8g. So if you’re running a brass valve, you already have the same imbalance, and no one notices that. You won’t have any issues with wheel...
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mfoga Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/24/2025 5:35am
Curious does the spring give an odd feel because the wheel wouldn’t be balanced?
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schwaaa31 Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/23/2025 1:51pm
I’m in that camp for my DH bike. I find tubeless to be a huge pain in the ass in general. Especially when swapping to a new tire. I’ve been running thick/DH tubes and DH casing tires on my DH bike for the last two seasons with only one flat. I don’t see any reason to go back to tubeless on that bike.
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AndehM Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/23/2025 1:51pm
Here's my thoughts on inserts. Where I mostly ride (trail/enduro, no DH), there's very few rocks, so low risk of punctures. I weigh 165 without gear, although in the last couple years I've been riding ebikes a lot which adds at least 15 lbs. A lot of the trails tend to have hard built up berms and run fast though, so sidewall stability is nice. I've also been running pretty nice wheels for several years (WAOs then Reserves), after having bad experience with stock cheesium rims and cheap Chinese carbon (LB ). When I progressed to the point where I...
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morewoodkid Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/23/2025 5:58am
Wow! What a great post, company and product! Starting a new business is no easy task, building one from the ground up WITH a new product is incredibly challening. Well done Ryan and thanks for your contribution. This is an amazing story and an amazing product, I will definitely be grabbing some next time I'm in the US.
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Ryan Burney Added a reply to What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/23/2025 5:57am Thanks! Funny you mention tubes. I’ve met a lot of riders, especially e bikers, who have just said screw it and gone back to thick tubes. A lot of road riders are also moving toward tpu tubes since they’re lighter and easier than tubeless. At events doing installs this year, the biggest issue I saw with tubeless was the rim...
SylentK Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/23/2025 5:44am
Dude, great write up! Love the desire to make something new/better! My first intro to tire inserts was the Schawlbe dual pressure thing. It was great, but only lasted like 4 tire changes. Then procore. It worked great, but it did have a life expectancy. All for enduro racing. Colorado rocks and stuff. Carbon wheels - Rovals Now that I'm not racing (kids and life and stuff) I just run DH casing Maxxis meat. No inserts. And sometimes with tubes. It's just easier. 
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Ryan Burney Added a reply to What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/22/2025 2:37pm Thanks Mike. That's a good camp to be in! It is compatible with asym rims. Since the insert lives within the lower section of the tire, it doesn't interface with the rim channel at all so it will work fine.
MistaMike Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/22/2025 2:34pm
Much respect Ryan, this was a great intro to Rim Saver development. I'm in the strong carbon + burly casing camp but wouldn't mind the ability to run lower pressures and still have peace of mind with Rim Saver in place. Is it compatible with asymmetrically offset rim beds?
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Dave_Camp Liked a reply to forum topic Santa Cruz lower link(?) creak
6/22/2025 10:27am
Try cleaning chainring to crank. I think thats my creak as well. I sprayed wd40 in there and it stopped for now.
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AndrewLee Liked a comment about bike check Steel Druid
6/22/2025 7:51am
Because I’m a fabricator and building your own stuff is cooler than buying it.
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LePigPen Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/20/2025 12:00pm
The best part about that filer is almost no one posts photos of riding bikes anymore... Everybody does videos. So it's effectively a rule for nothing aside from getting people to not post their bikes in the garage or in the truck all day. But at that point, just take away the option to post photos or something I dunno lol Reddit gonna reddit. But yeah hope the post goes well and you should try to do an AMA some time! Especially if you release something new to promote. I'm sure the mods will be stoked on it (i think...
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Ryan Burney Added a reply to What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/20/2025 11:35am Thanks again for the idea. I post a tldr and link to this page (I couldn't get the full post to go through the filters as they don't want photos of non-bikes). People seem to like it and we got a lot of good questions. Cheers! https://www.reddit.com/r/MTB/comments/1lg3m8m/what_i_learned_starting_a…
LePigPen Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/20/2025 5:17am
unsurprisingly, there are 2 communities on reddit but one is considered the larger one with better engagement. and thats reddit.com/r/mtb/ whereas the one called mountainbiking specifically, didnt grow as much apparently because it was unmoderated. but yeah try to make a text post on /r/mtb/ and figure out the re-formatting on their website. i think people would love to see it. especially knowing that it's an actual engineer and not a rider or influencer or random yahoo from youtube, etc.
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ROBBIS TV Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/18/2025 9:05am
Izanagi Teru V2 prototype. V3 coming soon...
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Ryan Burney Added a reply to What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/18/2025 6:33am I haven't posted anything on reddit before. Do you know the best place to share it? If you think it will be interesting, then I might as well!
LePigPen Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/17/2025 4:40am
My favorite part was going out of the way to explain what scenarios one could use to 'not' have to use a tire insert product like RimSaver. Explaining how/why it happens, and what you can do about it outside of trying to 'buy' your way out of the solution. I wish this article could reach more eyes in the wider community. Ryan you can probly post it on reddit as well where Phil has had a hell of a time communicating with those goblins after the frame incident 😂
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bulletbass man Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/16/2025 10:19am
Thanks for the read! I’m definitely in the benefits from a heavy cushcore like insert camp. But it’s always refreshing to see someone who doesn’t try to convince you to buy something. But instead is just an open book on what they are offering and let people make up their own mind. In a world of marketing teams and snake oil salesman it’s a very refreshing change. Sounds like an entertaining learning experience and you have one of the more interesting lightweight insert designs. Guess I’ll have to keep an eye out for the next idea you cook up for...
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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/16/2025 5:51am
It sounds like you’ve identified a cool niche problem that your product uniquely addresses. The downside for is you've got a more complicated sales pitch to customers. It’s easier to say “we’re better for everyone!” instead of “it’s better in this scenario, worse in that one, good for certain customers, not needed for every customer, etc.” I think this also describes the growing pains that inserts went through, in general. For a time, inserts like Cushcore were being pitched in a general way as being better for everyone. There were, however, large groups of people for whom that didn’t really...
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rhodefab Liked a reply to forum topic What I Learned Starting a Tire Insert Company
6/16/2025 5:50am
Thanks for sharing the journey Ryan, it's always nice to see a peek behind the curtain as it were for product development. I hope you keep working on some concepts with tire retention/bead locks, I suspect some of the methods used here could be expanded on.
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