Oh that’s the other catch, I wouldn’t call my rims nice lol. They are just looped aluminum extrusion and the weld is almost a corner instead of being round. I’m actually shocked at how decent it is after dialing in the spokes. I just put the much nicer winter tires on the stock rims which while not marked for tubeless in any way, do work tubeless.
If I had money to burn I’d also get a recumbent but they are freakishly expensive. If my welder didn’t get stolen I probably would have made my own by cannibalizing the kid bikes my parents never got rid of when we outgrew them.
Haha. Yeah that’s one way to do it. ‘Not nice’ bike components are pretty affordable.
I found my recumbent at a yard sale. It was hand made by some local bike company in Seattle. The guy wanted $500 for it, but I had a Scattante race bike with a carbon fork and a Shimano 105 groupset that I didn’t want, so we traded. I bought the race bike at Value Village for $185 and commuted on it for a couple years before trading it, so I got an all-around great deal, and he got a sweet race bike that he wanted.