Originally Posted by
patentcad
Clinchers must be faster, which is why every pro team in the UCI rides on tubulars. They all want to be slower.
Pcad...they race on tubulars, but most of them will train on clinchers.
When you have two team cars with 85 sets of wheels and four mechanics to run out and switch your wheel when you flat, it's a lot easier. Fourty miles from home with a tubular flat's not so much fun unless your wife is following you with the "Pcad Team Car"...Sponsored by Apple Computer...
They are great to race on, and if you are in a crit and you get a flat, you are toast anyway so it does not matter, plus it's a walk across the parking lot or industrial park to your car...
Plus, you've got to hang them in the basement to "age" like great sausage...
