Originally Posted by
rubiksoval
The issue with tubulars being that you have to glue them on near perfectly or you're going to get some bad CRR that can/will negate any other benefits.
Plus, you have to be careful about the tubular tubes. Continental, for example, doesn't even use latex. More CRR.
I glue them perfectly. That is the point.
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There are lots of reasons to use clinchers. The test was not about convenience, it was about performance.
The implication was that riding the tubeless in the real world would be a better performing wheel set than a tubular.
For performance $2,000 wheel set in best tubular will be better than $2,000 in anything else. The exact configuration I'd use for the $2K depends on the application. That Tony Martin can win a world ITT on smooth flat roads on clinchers - I get. I think he could have done so on tubulars too.