Thread: Tubular Tires?
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Old 03-22-12 | 10:38 PM
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Six jours
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I'm not sure there's much point in tubulars anymore. Clinchers seem have closed the performance gap down to essentially nothing. Especially once you've added a bunch of weight to your tubulars by filling them with some sort of goop.

I still ride tubulars on a near-daily basis, for no real reason other than nostalgia. They worked for me back when there was no real option, and they still work now. The one big difference is that whereas there used to be a good selection of tubulars, now we have top quality stuff and absolute crap, with no real middle ground. There isn't any reason in the world to use cheap tubulars (Vittoria Rally, etc.) and good tubulars start at around $100 each. The cheap tires, among other faults, puncture if you look at them funny, which may be the reason for the goop. The expensive ones are surprisingly flat resistant, but they're still $100 apiece...

Gluing tubulars is not hard at all. A few minutes with Google will show you everything you need to know. You'll probably be messy the first few times, but they'll still stay put. I would NOT trust the average bike shop to do it right.
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