Originally Posted by
due ruote
Dude. Can you sniff tape?
You definitely have a point there.
What we SHOULD have seen in the movie Airport is: "I picked a bad day to give up gluing tubulars."
The full value of gluing things that can be much more easily taped is the "leave me alone, I'm doing something" opportunity.
The full value of riding tubulars, for me, is looking down at a wheel that has a tire glued on. Just seems right. It's part of the wheel.
That and the street cred you can still get... "Oh, are those tubulars?" The very fit hipsters on the $8000 bike seem to like them, too.
Besides, without old tubulars, I can't nag
crank_addict about his tires.