Thanks for the info I kind of feel like I've been just smiling and nodding on the whole tubeless setup - I can parrot back what's good about it, etc. but never expected to be using it! In theory, it sounds great (if I had one more flat from a thorn I can't see and have to pick out with tweezers, I think I'd scream)...and then I realized I was totally clueless.

I did get an internal laugh today as the bike shop guy kept using his wife as a reference point - at least he's married, or who knows what sort of advice he'd have for a female! As in "I put really wide bars on my wife's bike, and she hated it...let's start with this amount cut off." And regarding tire pressure "I run (whatever) but...hmm...I think my wife started at 25 and adjusted from there..." (while I'm thinking to myself...I have no idea of your wife's build at all, but that employee over there is exactly my size, let's ask him!)