Tubular or Clincher

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Do you usually ride clinchers or tubulars?

Tubular
144
42%
Clincher
171
50%
Tubeless
24
7%
 
Total votes: 339

NGtim
Posts: 30
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by NGtim

Having never ridden Tubs, cant say for sure but for ease of maintenance in case of flats I'd invest more cash towards a clincher wheelset. Would love to give a set of wheels with tubs a try sometime though!

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beatle
Posts: 177
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by beatle

pdlpsher1 wrote:For those of you who run tubeless do you add sealant to the tire? If yes how much additional weight increase do you see and does the sealant detract from the benefits of having tubeless tires?


Yes, I use Orange Seal. I run it in my tubulars as well. There are no downsides, IMHO. It saved me in a race once and I have had a few punctures on the road that sealed without stopping as well. As for weight, I don't know but too small for it to be an issue for me.

KCookie
Posts: 1963
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Location: Pom living in Australia

by KCookie

I run stans in both my tyres which adds 50g. !!

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alistaird
Posts: 279
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:21 pm

by alistaird

Recently swapped to tubulars - first set of tyres lasted < 100 miles but new set is much better. We'll see I only tried them to see what a full carbon rim was like and tubular wheels were much cheaper. Time will tell...

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Wingnut
Posts: 2196
Joined: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:41 am

by Wingnut

Of all my wheelsets I have 50% tubulars and 50% clincher but prefer the better feel of nice tubulars...they're more of a hassle but feel great!

raffal
Posts: 11
Joined: Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:31 am

by raffal

Nowadays, technologies of clincher tires have been to almost the same level of tubular tires and I think clincher tires are much more economical.

Kongbop
Posts: 59
Joined: Sun Nov 15, 2015 4:58 am

by Kongbop

Clincher! (I prefer 2way-fit : Tubeless is much better)

sawyer
Posts: 4485
Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:45 pm
Location: Natovi Landing

by sawyer

Straight line speed is a wash these days ... tho note the top clincher CRRs are with latex tubes which is less safe (esp with CCs) than tubs

Cornering and descending - way more confidence inspiring and safer with tubs
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Junior7
Posts: 96
Joined: Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:39 am

by Junior7

excellent post.

My next wheelset will be tubular. (bora one 35).

eeefn7
Posts: 10
Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2016 8:03 am

by eeefn7

vote clincher..! ..but I want to try a tubeless

DavidMLee
Posts: 172
Joined: Tue Aug 04, 2015 3:48 pm

by DavidMLee

Tubular for racing and Clincher for training rides.

Although I heard recently clinchers' rolling resistance and performance have proven to be superior to tubulars' despite weight penalty.
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sethjs
Posts: 279
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Location: San Francisco, CA

by sethjs

Bicyclerollingresistence.com has started testing tubulars. First test was conti competition. About 2 watts worse than the gp4000s2

nemeseri
Posts: 794
Joined: Tue Apr 07, 2015 5:40 pm

by nemeseri

sethjs wrote:Bicyclerollingresistence.com has started testing tubulars. First test was conti competition. About 2 watts worse than the gp4000s2


Don't forget that it comes with a butyl tube (they tested the gp4000 with latex) and the measured with is 25mm, while the gp4000 25c has a 27mm measured width on the test rim. So the real difference is less than 2W. You should compare the results of a 23c clincher gp4k with a thin a butyl tube.

Also continental glue is worse than mastik one based a recent study I read, and it's well know that the glue job is critical in tests like this. I can't wait for the next tubular test, I'm sure that in this particular test they will be slower, but I think the difference is very small.
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KarlC
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by KarlC

sethjs wrote:Bicyclerollingresistence.com has started testing tubulars. First test was conti competition. About 2 watts worse than the gp4000s2



Tom A over on Slow Twitch has tested a few Tubs .....

http://bikeblather.blogspot.com/...peed-course-and.html

https://docs.google.com/.../edit#gid=1224624714


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