Originally Posted by
NormanF
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.
Most pros still race on tubulars today. In some ways clinchers are more convenient, but I'd have to disagree with you about them being safer. *we have a whole thread that gets into this.
OP - what matters is the relative ERD (effective Rim Diameter) - which is the distance from the point where one spoke's nipple is seated against the rim, through the center of the rim, to the opposite seating point. If these distances are within 1.5mm, there's a very good chance you can use the same spokes. If the difference is more than that, the correct spoke size for the clincher rim will need to be calculated. I prefer the calulator at
www.dtswiss.com to spokecalc.
<edit> I see I came late to the party, and without the pretty pictures that Scooper brought.
