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dancing james
There's a bunch of dependencies that some of these choices impose which lead to some conflicts - I'm facing the same ones, specifically on the wheels/brakes.
I've been running tubeless recently and I'm a convert to the ease of use, puncture resistance, and the grip and comfort that running much lower pressures bring - always seems crazy to me (at 82kg) that 50 rear and 45 front is fine, but it is, and it certainly takes the sting out of Soho's Pave.
So I'd like to use tubeless - but I don't trust anything but tubulars on carbon wheels if using a rim brake. But I want to use rim brakes due to simplicity (this is going to be a travel bike which splits in two to go in a case) so I have to use tubulars if I run carbon wheels.
This is, I admit, a first world problem.