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Originally Posted by CapriRacer
Must be a regional thing.
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It's not a regional thing at all, even though I have seen people using tubes on radials which were actually tubeless. Some did it because one of the sidewalls was damaged, and so the tire would otherwise lose pressure, while others did it because they didn't understand how a tubeless tire works.
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In the US, there are hardly any tubetype tires - even on trucks, where they were the last to convert.
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Even though tubeless tires were already available, in the early and mid '90s I was still more used to see tube-type tires. Nowadays I only see tube-type tires on motorcycles still fitted with wire wheels and some ancient cars and trucks. Odd enough, even though I remember seeing motorcycles with tubeless tires, I don't remember having ever seen radials being fitted to a motorcycle, yet for cars and light trucks the tubeless options are mostly radials.