Clinchers are great to train on, I'd never running tubulars just cruising around the local parks. That being said the Crux Force is a great bike! Pretty much everyone on my time has one, mines a Elite from last year but it has pretty much all the same specs. That being said, it doesn't really make a good commuter... it's pretty much a race bike in my opinion. There's no way to get a decent set of fenders on it.