Originally Posted by Atlas Shrugged

These never ending screeds that point out only selected and skewed one sided merits and ignoring counterpoints makes all these comments superfluous. With this approach one could endlessly defend the use of solid rubber wheels even though anyone with any reason knows the idea is ridiculous. Yes tubulars were the pinnacle of tire technology for decades however their development had stagnated. Modern tire solutions overcame the advantages of tubulars with huge gains in convenience, reliability, performance, etc. People have chosen and tubulars are just a vestige of cyclings past. The fundamental flaw with tubulars include; mounting is a pain especially for none enthusiasts, puncture resistance is average at best, on road spares are very inconvenient, at most one flat per ride otherwise you are screwed, expensive, repairing a tire is difficult. Those problems had doomed tubulars.

Lastly, for every clincher, hookless or not which has unseated and caused an incident there are just as many if not more with people which had rolled a tubular.