Originally Posted by
Road Fan
First, tubular tires are ridden today.
Second, they are safer after a flat than a clincher, because they stay on the rim.
Third, part of learning to deal with them is to deal with flats. As has been said, you slit open the seam, patch the tube, sew it up. Treating them as disposable is as silly as saying "wow, my derailleur needs tuning, I'd better just get a new one."
Unless you have a lot more money than I do.
Fourth, i have yet to find a clincher that offers as good a ride as a good tubular, like a Veloflex Servizio Corsa. (ok, Veloflex Pave + latex inner tube comes close, but its not quite there still).
on the other hand, resewing a (good) tubular with spoil the ride, as it is close to impossible to reproduce the sewing quality of the factory job. Unless you are a much better sewer than i am
