> Would a hand-made clincher with cotton casing in a 34 mm width be > faster yet? We are working on that... Sounds wonderful. But for the fact I like my Grand Bois clinchers so much I sold my only tubular wheel set for lack of use.
On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 2:53:49 PM UTC-5, Jan Heine wrote: > On Aug 7, 12:13 pm, Patrick in VT <swing4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 2:43:57 PM UTC-4, Anne Paulson wrote: > > > > > Similarly with the tire tests. The differences between tires, > > > surprisingly, were very large. Whatever small noise got introduced by > > > stopwatch pressing was overwhelmed by the large measured differences > > > between slower tires and faster ones. > > > > what was the fastest tire (size and width) in Jan's tire testing? > > Using the data published so far, the fastest tire was a hand-made > clincher with cotton casing in a 700C x 24 mm (actual) width. However, > since that was the only hand-made clincher in the test, it's hard to > conclude much from that beyond that hand-made cotton casings are super- > fast. (Pro racers have known that for a long time, almost all of them > race on hand-made tires with cotton or silk casings.) > > Would a hand-made clincher with cotton casing in a 34 mm width be > faster yet? We are working on that... > > Jan Heine > Editor > Bicycle Quarterly > http://janheine.wordpress.com/ > -- 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/-/CU28ZrPqJNkJ. 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.
