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Ditto. When I got into vintage cycling several years ago, tubular wheels were actually less expensive. It doesn't hurt that I like the ride better, or that I used them back in college. Back then (early 70s), that's what decent bikes came with.
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That's what some decent bikes came with. You could get Paramounts with either tubulars or clinchers, and most Jack Taylor models were made for clinchers.
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Tubulars on a 700c bike that gets ridden 20% of the time and only in-season, but I've only had a single flat in going on three years, and that one happened after I got home and was able to seal it with sealant.
But that's not why I ride them. To me they just raise the ride and handling to that extra level of smoothness. With them the bike is like a Mercedes 450 SL-not a race bike, but more of a sports touring machine for civilized jaunts up the coast. With tubed clinchers-and these are Compass 28-the ride is more pedestrian. I may revisit and experiment with pressures and do more of a controlled experiment. I think maybe the tubulars mitigates the stiffer ride of the oversize tubing on this steel bike. The majority of my riding is done on 650b 42 and 48 clinchers. The difference tubed and tubeless of these (at least the 48 so far) is roughly akin to what I am experiencing with clincher vs tubular on the the 700c bike. So maybe I should try road tubeless? |
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+1 - Tubulars only and Campy Only here!! Also completely agree with not finding mounting a hassle!!
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"wear more quickly"..ahh. no..a lot of 'open' clincher casings re the same as the tubular..so 4 to 4..a draw!!
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So as an aside. I've wound up with two sets of older tubular wheels that I want to use. My normal setup on my bikes is usually the Conti 4000s II in 700 x 25 with latex tubes. I can this type setup on my many bikes for 5000-8000 miles a year and normally see maybe one flat.
I'm thinking on running the Veloflex Arenberg or maybe even the Vlaanderen. Can any user of the Vlaanderen speak to how they truly measure, are they to size? The 700 x 25 Conti's measure in the 27/28 mm range so I figure if the Vlaanderen are true to size they should fit on most any bike I chose to use them on. Am I making a good choice? |
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Sure, there was a time when Campy and tubulars were the 'best' and you had to know how glue tires and rebuild a shifter if you wanted to ride a lot. Equipment is really good now and its just not necessary any longer, IMO. Its easy to buy a bike with clinchers and shimano 105 and it'll go many thousands of miles with no hassle with nothing more than fresh cables and chain every other year. If you enjoy that stuff, great, but dont thumb your noses at the people that dont, certainly not if we want new people to start riding. As an aside, I think most of us would fail the pepsi challenge when it came to identifying a nice set of clinchers vs. tubulars. |
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However, on my MTB I do run tubeless on two bikes and standard clinchers on one. |
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Agreed. While I was changing a tubular flat on a recent group ride the general sentiment of my clincher buddies was why don't I switch.
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Yeah, I bought into the dream of tubulars years ago.
Cost me a bunch of money and nothing else. They are all gone now. |
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And most riders are not competitive which is where tubulars were/are used in higher numbers. The pros will thankfully always use tubular and thus be available to enthusiasts.
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