We got fed up replacing our tires before they actually wore out. Also, we got fed up ending our race runs with flats. We do racing because it’s fun, and racing on flat tire isn’t fun anymore. We think that in the year 2016 riding should be puncture free. We have seen even the pro racers ending their race runs with punctures. This is something what should not be possible these days with modern technologies present. We wanted to take the bull by the horns and develop simple solution to prevent punctures. In the end we realized that we have resolved a bigger issue - the hassle of inflating tubeless MTB tires.
Huck Norris is a cellular foam which goes inside your tire. It sits in the middle of the tire and touches the sidewalls only a little so you don’t miss any of that sweet rolling ability of your tire. When you are about to get a puncture, the Huck Norris is between the tire beads that are folding together. Huck Norris creates an extra cushion to your tire. This protects your rims and your tires. The good thing is that you don’t need to modify the rim or the tire. It’s an affordable solution to make your rides longer and save you money.
What Huck Norris Does:
• No more punctures in tubeless MTB setup
• No more nasty dents to your rims
• No more hassle with tubeless setup
• No modification to your rim or glue needed
• No need for compressor to install tubeless anymore
• No need to over inflate the tires to avoid punctures. Use the pressure you want!
• No more downhill tires on trail bikes
• More fun with tubeless MTB!
• Sizes: 70g (27.5") 77g (29") weight
• For 21-45mm internal rim width, 27.5 and 29” wheels and Plus size tires.
• Fatbike version coming soon.
• Material specially developed for MTB use.
• Three times the impact energy damping than anything commercially available.
• Package includes a fender
• Made in Finland. Patent Pending.
• MSRP: 69 Euro
• Contact:
Huck Norris
Have you tried any fabric protection spray / coating to prevent the sealant absorbing?
That is an interesting idea, we have not thought of that. Need to look into it, even though the sealant absorbing is much less of an issue than what it appears here. It is closed cell foam, so material is taking in about 2% of liquid, which in practice is next to nothing. I personally don't put any extra sealant because of that. At he moment Huck Norris is water cut to shape and that leaves open tiny amount of those cells, we have planned trying to do the cutting with laser and seeing if that could melt the material so that cells would not be left open. Not too much in a hurry with that though, this is still very marginal improvement.
I dont run carbon rims on the back of my bikes but this looks to be the simple solution!
Great job.
The thing with the price though, we wanted to make it as affordable as possible, the issue is that it would be possible to make it cheaper if material would be made and packed in far east, but with our current resources we have no way of making sure that environmental things are considered in production and no kids are have to labor in packing the stuff. So we chose to have it made where we can check these things. I think for saving 10€ in your money, is not worth screwing up nature and kids.
You guys are forgetting the Norris royalties. The price is right.
Now i'm no fan of corporate culture or business practices in general but i know that that is how they operate and i'm not surprised when they do.
Do you fume with rage at bottled water considering it falls out of the sky?
@whitebullit : Really? If it prolongs the life of the ever scarcer 26" components it is well worth it. That said, you're probably right in a way. I ride 26" on my mountainbikes and should probably invest in a yoga mat to do some of those exercises (like downward facing dog) and not slide out on the wooden or concrete floor. And indeed I still haven't.
Well, I guess a lot depends on where and how you ride. But where I live (Finland) it's more or less rocky everywhere and I run near 2.5 bar in the rear most times. Last time I tried 2 bar was coming off from an injury and I thought I would just take an easy ride. 10 min from the door and I accidentally took a line I wasn't supposed to and did a 3 foot drop on a rock and had a textbook snakebite on a 2.5" 29" Exo DHF and a dented rim.
So yes, I think these kind of systems make a lot of sense to a lot of people, not needing to run overinflated tires and suffer from bouncy ride and bad grip.
and i'm not heavy, i weight 73 kg
PSI stands for Pounds per square Inch. Even English people who invented imperial start switching to metric because imperial is a retarded way to measure. "That bike weighs one rock, two stones and a handful of sand. The toptube length is one arm length, 4 toe nails and 0.5 teeth long". I hope you see my point? Just use bar, it will make you sound more developed.
It takes more work... but if you crush the tire against a rock hard enough it will hit the rim and cut the tire open in two spots, proper snake bite fashion.
The Stan's spluge will seal the resulting cut in the tread area eventually.
But it will never ever seal the 2nd resulting cut on the sidewall right near the rim.
You will need to throw the tire away. Run a tube indefinitely. Or patch it from the inside with a radial car tire patch before it can be run tubeless again.
(Yes, I've done it enough times to know exactly where the cuts will appear. *Sad face.)
Not sure why they don't wrap the foam with some sort of plastic similar to a saran wrap. This would solve the sealant absorption problem and actually make more sense of the cost.
You got me bro
Not all pros run tubeless...can't speak for XC because I really couldn't care less about it, but for the sects of this sport that I care about it's still somewhat of a mixed bag.
I run tubeless on my trail bike as I'd rather burp landing sideways or railing a berm than flat and running a tubeless setup has allowed me to ride hard without flats for years and not feel obligated to carry a pack and/or a spare tube + co2.
Maybe I'm in the minority amongst PBers, but I also don't run super low pressures.
Tubeless weight savings is nominal at best...
Bringing up pro XC racers in the context of this conversation is a joke as pro XC racers will save weight literally ANY WAY they can.
Lee.- 5'7" 137 lbs
Norris.- 5'11" 170 lbs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHZEu7Y7DU
The price is stupid high for a piece of foam. Maybe that's why the logo has a face covered with a bandana. Pinkbike please check these out.
A) This is not that idea.....
B) This isn't the first time someone put foam in a wheel in hopes of preventing a flat.
Does it work? Hard to tell been running 18/19psi and the baron protection/apex is a pretty tough carcass to start with.
All I know is at the Macavalanche race many had tyre/rim fails due to the rocks.
ruleoftech.com/2016/protecting-mountain-bike-tire-and-rim-with-huck-norris-and-procore
Maybe just buy decent tyres in the first place?
ruleoftech.com/2016/protecting-mountain-bike-tire-and-rim-with-huck-norris-and-procore
did think of this idea but but problem is that is going to make it very difficult to get your tyres on and even harder to get them off again
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Because he drinks the tire sealant before every ride.