Patrick M, Hmmmmm.
First I'd encourage anybody who hasn't used tubulars, is up for the gluing aspect, and has an interest in it to give them a try. Though I like my RH tires, I think comparing RH tires to tubulars is sort of apples to oranges. The tubulars I rode were 21 or 22 mm road racing (or training) tires. The good ones had a round cross section even before you inflated them, and they all had a round cross section when inflated. The effect of that roundness may have been primarily psychological, but somehow tubulars never felt as narrow as 23mm clinchers do to me. The tubulars gave a remarkably comfy ride even pumped to ~100psi. They also gave very immediate and responsive handling. It's possible the different wheel types played a roll too. I used light low profile rims like Arc En Ciel, and gl330 or gl280. I think even a "light" clincher rim like the Pacenti Brevet or the MA-40s that were ubiquitous in the 90s is significantly stiffer than those old tubular rims. Surely the more aero rims common today are. I don't think my recollections are good enough to pass judgement on the relative rolling resistance compared to tires I ride these days, but I'd hazard a guess that they (the good hand made tubulars) roll more easily. Most of the tires I ride now are a lot bigger than a road tubular. I like them a lot, they are comfy, and handle well if I don't run the pressure too low. But I don't think I would like riding those tires in a criterium, particularly not a technical downtown one (as opposes to a wide open course in a business park). Perhaps not even for a road race, where shoulder rubbing bar bumping crunches weren't unheard of either. However I don't do those things anymore so it's not really relevant for me. The 26mm cayuse extralights mounted to Hed Ardennes+ rims on my BMC Road are probably close to a good hand made tubular, but I doubt they are quite the same. They are very nice though and I doubt Ill ever go to the trouble and expense of setting up a road bike just to have for riding tubulars when I want to do so. But I'd never call into question anybody else's decision to so. On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 10:16:12 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Ted: Wrestling in prayer not to jerk the thread onto a tangent, but giving > in to sin with the consolation that the tangent isn't irrelevant: Do you > find that the best GB and RH clinchers perform (criteria: rolling > resistance, at least perceived, and cushioning over bumps of any sort) as > well as tubulars? If no, can you explicate? > > Thanks. Patrick "mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" Moore, in full confidence of > the group's absolution. > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:51 AM ted <ted....@comcast.net <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Trying is knowing. Do it. >> >> After riding strictly on tubulars for a couple decades I went back to >> clinches and never got results I was really happy with till I tried a pair >> of Grand Boise extralights I bought from Compass bikes (before JH >> introduced his like of tires). If you are at all interested in RH tires, I >> encourage you to try them. They were around and used very successfully by >> many folks before TC versions were even available. >> > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- 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/3887d7b6-91a2-4ff1-8bf4-5f5cee3e5bffo%40googlegroups.com.
