View Single Post
Old 10-12-23, 04:17 AM
  #21  
PeteHski
Senior Member
 
PeteHski's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2021
Posts: 8,832
Mentioned: 16 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4611 Post(s)
Liked 5,155 Times in 3,185 Posts
Originally Posted by surak
Pro teams aren't as smart as people want to give them credit for when it comes to new tech. I've both read and heard that some teams use (arguably less than) the bare minimum of sealant because they're still overly obsessed with weight, and you can look at some of the flats that happened at the most recent Paris-Roubaix for instances where the tires came off because no tire liners were used. They'll eventually catch up with mainstream cycling -- it took them a while to adopt tubeless 28mm and wider tires.
This^
Ineos rider Luke Rowe commented on his podcast about some teams being stupid for not running liners at Paris Roubaix, in a vain effort to save maybe 1W of power.

The funniest part was that Geraint Thomas wasn’t even aware that his team was using liners. Pro riders are not all focused on the tech. Some just ride and leave it to the engineers.

Last edited by PeteHski; 10-12-23 at 04:21 AM.
PeteHski is offline  
Likes For PeteHski: