Originally Posted by steelbikeguy

"Clincher" was an earlier technology for securing tires to a rim, based on what I recall reading a couple of decades ago.
I was poking through some of my old materials, but can't find the source. My recollection is that the clincher was a tire without a bead, but was still a tire that was separate from the tube. I recall some sort of separate ring that seemed to lock or hold the edge of the tire to the rim. Conceptually, it was similar to what tubeless does now, but no adhesive goo was used.

Someone here must have this info??

In current bike tech terminology, there's no apparent distinction between how clincher and wired-on are used.

edit: Sheldon has some info under the entry for clincher that speaks to this linguistic detail...


Steve in Peoria