The money-is-no-object best tubular rim for a Rivendell custom is, in my opinion, the HED Belgium. I don't run the tubular variant, but I run several wheelsets built around the clincher HED Belgium, Belgium Plus, and Ardennes wheels. They are exceptional rims.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 4:03:15 PM UTC-7, Corwin wrote: > > Hi - > > Can we get back to the question I posed? The original question was: Which > rim is best for tubulars? The only mention of a rim I've seen so far is the > Major Tom's Bill ran on his Atlantis. Does anyone else have experience on > rims other than Velocity Major Tom's? > > And for Patrick - > > To quote Jan: "A wide tires has so much casing that the clincher rim no > longer makes up a significant portion of the tire’s circumference. And that > means that with truly wide tires, the advantages of tubulars disappear. But > for narrow tires, a great tubular will transform your bike." > > I do not think you will find many tubulars much wider that 34mm. > > Namaste, > > > Corwin > > On Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 10:02:26 PM UTC-7, Corwin wrote: >> >> 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/689adfa1-dcba-4351-aa4d-7ea2d56a8d54%40googlegroups.com.
