Hi - My first really nice bike had sew-up [now usually referred to as tubular] tires. This was back in the day (mid '70s) of 27" wheels, full campy grouppo, etc. I recall two things about sew-ups/tubulars:
1) The ride was incredible. Very smooth. Seemed to glide over the pavement. All this even though the tires were less than 30mm wide. 2) Flats were a major hassle to fix. First you had to get the tire off the bike. Sew-ups/tubulars are either glued to the rim or secured via two-sided tape. Then you had to find the leak, pull back the strip covering the seam in the casing (whence the name - sew-up), cut the seam near the leak, patch the tube inside, re-sew the seam in the casing, secure the strip covering the seam and reinstall the tire on the rim. I had relegated sew-ups to the distant past until I saw Jan's recent post on tubulars. That got me to thinking about a new set of Rich-built wheels to go on my Riv custom. I have another bike to put the current set on, and I would like to recover some of the ride of the old bike. Which leads me to my question - which rim would be best for my wheels? The rims need to be compatible with tubulars. Having ridden several sets of bomb-proof wheels using Velocity rims, I naturally gravitated to the Velocity Major Tom. Is there a better or more appropriate rim for tubulars? I'm planning on using Jan's FMB tubulars; probably one of the 33mm tires. Thanks in advance for your help. Corwin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/214b9d36-e32d-4c31-b516-f83388d893ab%40googlegroups.com.
