i ride clinchers with tubes and i can change a flat in 5 minutes. my tubeless team mates, if the puncture or cut is too large, have to deal with A) going through one or more plugs and pray they work, or B) end up inserting a tube anyway, and C) the mess the sealant leaves behind and all over their clothes. no thank you.
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Iāve been tubeless across all my bikes since ~2018. TT bike on 28ās @ 65 psi, Road bike on 32ās @ 55psi, and mountain bikes in the 2.2-2.4 range @ ~20psi.
Somehow Iāve never flatted on the TT bike, outside of 1 time I ran over a piece of metal that cut the tire virtually in half and wouldnāt have been able to take a tube. On the road/mtb side Iāve put in a couple handfuls of plugs, but Iāve only had to install a tube once in all these years, on the road bike.
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I run my GP5000 AS TR 28s at 65psi and Silca sealant works perfectly, no issues at all. My race wheels have GP5000 S TRs 28s at 70psi, again no issues with sealant working.
Iām a convert to be honest - a surprising number of times last season at the end of races I could see the tell tale splashes of sealant on my (black) frame. On a new bike, but only real change this year is a second wheelset for social spins without inserts - just to give the option to tube in the event of a plug not sealing, even though that never happened last year (and can ride flat with the inserts anyway).
Hm,
I wonder, is there any bigger reasons to change that the puncture āprotectionā aspect.
I have only punctered maybee once in two years, so if that is the biggest upside im not ready to change the setup just yet i think
Tyre pressure also, and then in races the inserts mean Iām never left at the side of the road changing a tube, with a pump/ tube I wouldāve had to carry. No ride flat option with tubes. But it depends on your roads - they can be pretty shocking here in Ireland, with little care shown when farmers are hedgecutting.
Iām know itās an outlier case, but this year was the first year I did RVV tubeless, and the lower pressure made a massive difference on the cobbles, but also in the training spins on the back roads of Wicklow in the run up.
Absolutely.
Ive had zero flats with Tubeless, but then had very little punctures anyway when running tubes.
The benefit for me was the reduction in tyre pressure which literally converted the bike from jarring on 700x25ās @ 80PSI to comfortable on 700x28ās @45PSI
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Road tubeless is finicky. Probably wouldnāt recommend anything smaller than 28c. Before I knew what I was really doing, I had Maxxis High Roads and was getting flats nearly every other ride, specifically the rear tire. I dropped the pressures quite a bit more and the flat frequency thankfully reduced. But the poor rear tire had so many issues, I junked it after a 1000 miles. I still run a Maxxis on the front because itās got plenty of life, but now have a P-Zero TLR Race on the rear and no flats since.
Moral of the story, use pressures lower than what youāre used to, even with road tubeless. Just know it takes some getting used to.
I have never had a flat on tubeless. I can see on the tyres that some holes have been filled with sealant so I am reasonably sure if I had not moved to tubeless I would have had some flats.
I ride 28s with ca. 60 psi.
Not every rider is sold on tubeless so do what you are comfortable with. Personally I will never go back to using tubes. The number of times that sealant has kept me rolling is much too valuable to give up. It can be a bit troublesome but honestly once you have a comfort level with it it is not really bad. All that said, again if you feel better simply running tubes then by all means do so.
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Iām still happy riding tubulars on a Campagnolo Bora. No punctures and no maintenance. So I donāt worry about switching to something else 
Should you go tubeless? I would say if you are not comfortable with what you currently ride, give it a try.