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10-27-2014, 08:15 AM
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--- Just get a piece of 100 grit sand paper and roll it up into a tube and sand off the gritty loose stuff. Then brush on a coat of Goof-Off and the glue becomes active again. In the OP's case though there is nothing wrong with starting off new. Cyclocross tires require A LOT of glue so that's probably why the rims were so filled in. 
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10-27-2014, 12:27 PM
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Park seems to make it a point that tubeless tires are dangerous. Since I am almost exclusively a climber, and love ripping around tight mountain curves, how paranoid should I be about losing a tire? There's spots on my favorite passes where a crash would almost certainly be fatal, and hitting trees or sign posts or rock walls at 40mph is never healthy either.
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10-27-2014, 12:54 PM
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I'm sure the rate of incidence is very low. You hear the stories. I've never had a problem, but I save them for my flat/closed course/circuit bike. Even with that it's always in the back of my mind. I'm sure over time the fear goes away (or shifts to other problems).
It's definitely a worthy experiment.
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10-27-2014, 01:22 PM
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10-28-2014, 05:51 AM
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will be tubulars, life is too short to ride on clinchers, besides, clinchers are for nancys.
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10-28-2014, 05:52 AM
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10-28-2014, 06:41 AM
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A tubular, if it goes flat, is actually safer than a clincher. With a tubular the tire is physically attached at the base of the sidewall, meaning you can't move the sidewall's base away from the rim. This means you have very little slop before the tire stops wiggling around. On a totally flat tire the tubular will move laterally about 1 cm before it simply can't move anymore. Compare that with a clincher where the tread might end up 2+ cm away from the rim side. Push an uninflated tubular to the side, then do the same with a clincher. Big difference. I have a clip of my friend and teammate, racing on my wheels, having a blowout/flat mid turn when he was sprinting up to a break in a race. He goes into the turn at maybe 30-32 mph, there's a slight bobble, he coasts through the rest of the turn, then pulls over. I thought he jammed or broke his chain, I didn't realize he'd flatted his front tire. My tire, my wheel, my glue job (from the prior year - the flat happened in 2010 I think). I glued a new tire on for him and it's been fine since - he's been racing those wheels, on the next set of tires. I was going to make a short clip using that bit of footage but it's so undramatic that it's actually hard to tell what happens. I have a few clips of people flatting a clincher and crashing, in similar turns. Think worst case scenario, leaned over hard in a turn. With a tubular you have a good chance of staying upright. With a clincher, not so much. In fact with a flat tubular you can ride pretty far/fast. I've ridden a front flat tubular for 30+ minutes to get home. Because I know I can ride a tubular home when I go for a training ride with tubulars I don't carry a spare, plus it would take me 30 minutes to remove a tire on the side of the road. Anyway on that front tire flat ride I caught up to two guys doing a fast ride on a rolling slightly downhill road (I flatted up by 106 in New Canaan, caught them on Route 124 heading down to Darien). I declined taking a pull because of my flat front - I was worried if I had to do something suddenly it would be sketchy. I did say hi when I got on, plus they were guys that knew me. Only when one guy complained about me not pulling did I admit that I had a flat front tire. They both sat up to verify that the tire was really flat, it was a kind of funny. The shop near the end of the road was closed that day so I just rode home, a town over. With a wide rim, or a carbon rim, I'd be less inclined to ride a flat. I don't think I rode a flat on the Reynolds, the same wheels my friend is using now. When I flatted on the HED Stingers (25-28mm wide brake track) I decided walking was better than ruining the rim. I realized I had a slow leak at after a race, tire went totally flat while we were watching other races, I walked the bike back.
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10-28-2014, 06:51 AM
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Olano winning World's on a flat tire..hope he gave his wrench a bonus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOtqNQJQcuU
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10-28-2014, 07:58 AM
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I like to keep a plastic tire lever in my spare tubular bag. With that you just force it under the base tape and then rock it back and forth as you slide along the rim for about 12 inches or so then just rip it right off. Takes 5 minutes. Seriously, I can change a tubular on the side of the road faster then a clincher. The only problem is that you then have to be careful in the corners for the rest of the ride. If you keep glue on your spare tire however you might be surprised at how well it actually holds, just don't go ripping corners like it's a Crit.
I would never ride a flat home unless I absolutely had too. Tubulars can be repaired but I would think after riding a flat home it would ruin it, might even hurt the rim too.
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