To me, road tubeless has most of the disadvantages of both clinchers and tubulars, without enough benefits. Clinchers with tubes are easy to service, easily available at many price points, and come in a wide range of widths and casings. Tubulars aren't cheap and take some time and care to glue up, but allow for lighter wheels, including carbon rims with a much greater safety margin than carbon clinchers, ride more comfortably for a given width, and don't pinch flat easily. Road tubeless requires tires that are not easily available locally for most of us, aren't cheap, have few choices, require clincher rims that aren't as light as tubulars, can be a pain to get mounted and sealed, are a mess to deal with if a repair is needed on the road, and won't quite ride like tubulars.
If I had the cash to spend, I'd rather ride some light carbon tubular wheels (ideally with disc brakes), use Tufo tape for mounting, and carry a little bottle of sealant than mess with tubeless. I don't, so alloy rims, clinchers and tubes are where I plan on being for quite a while to come. Bill On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:08:11 AM UTC-7, Patrick in VT wrote: > > On May 23, 12:38 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I'd also be curious to see how road tubeless improve on the speed and > >"feel" of racing tires, but as someone pointed out, these are for now > >all 700c. > > what kind of racing tires? i have a friend who rides a Hutchinson > road tubeless wheelset and he likes it quite a bit. not far from a > tubular in terms of feel, but definitely stiffer casings. it's too > bad that "road" tubeless hasn't really taken off - granted, it's not > as user-friendly and "low-pressure performance" is still kind of > anathema with the roadie set. And a lot of racers have already > invested in tubular wheelsets (sealant works in tubulars too). still, > it'd be nice to see a smattering of road UST type options. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/dUw5quYl_i8J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
