Originally Posted by
terrors
thanks john, i recently acquired a lovely Marinoni track bike, it has a beautiful set of campy record track hubs laced to some Nisi tubular rims. the tires definetly need replacing although i did ride it at the track on the weekend but i could hear the old glue cracking and popping and i thought i might be further ahead to just switch everything over to a clincher rim. i will likely give it a go.
Go with clinchers. Tubulars are obsolete and forget about patching them in the rain if you get a flat. In the old days, the pros raced with tubulars because clincher technology still had a ways to go but today clincher road tires are good or even better than tubulars - and a lot safer.