View Single Post
Old 07-18-16, 11:27 AM
  #19  
tcs
Palmer
 
tcs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 8,627

Bikes: Mike Melton custom, Alex Moulton AM, Dahon Curl

Mentioned: 37 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1671 Post(s)
Liked 1,826 Times in 1,062 Posts
Originally Posted by woodcraft
I ordered one by mistake once- seemed heavy.
I dunno, maybe it was. I've been around long enough to not put the slightest faith in manufacturers' advertised weights of anything associated with cycling. But remember, compared to a regular clincher a Tufo tubular-clincher is like the tire, the tube and the rim tape all in one.

Oh, boy - tubular-clinchers, tubeless clinchers/rims, veloplugs, graphene, sealants, CO2, supple sidewalls, mega-tpi, Mariposa tape...what jolly fun. We've come a long way since single tube tires and even those heat vulcanized patches.

Last edited by tcs; 07-18-16 at 11:31 AM.
tcs is offline