Just by chance, I was stripping the tread off a dead Parigi-Roubaix yesterday, to recycle as sidewall patches/boots for other tires. Another rider on a group ride flatted out, and I shocked the crowd by producing not just a spare, but a *nice* spare (GB Cerf), so the rider could finish the route. A chunk of tread had come out of the contact point; the rider said he'd gotten about 1200 miles out of it.
One thing I noticed was the gluing method. The tread is glued at the edges, but not in the center. If you got the sort of de-lam we've seen in the photos, along the edge, a fair amount of tread could peel off. Theoretically. That said, I've put about 1000 miles on the only set of P-Rs I've veer owned, and the tread's still glued where it's supposed to be. BTW, aren't most better-quality tubulars traditionally hand-glued? Peter "gotta get that Hetre fixed" Adler Berkeley, CA/USA On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 1:04:14 PM UTC-7, William deRosset wrote: > > veering off-topic, but I've gone through thirty-five Parigi-Roubaix, > Strada Blanca, and Eroica tires since 2008. None have delaminated. Their > older (tubulars) had problems occasionally, as did Clement, FMB, and > (rarely) Vittoria tubulars. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
