Somewhere out there i remember seeing a slow-mo video of tires rolling over
the cobbles at Paris Roubaix. There was a lot of 'straight to the rim'
impact happening. I think the tubular choice has more to do with avoiding
flats and reducing rotational weight than anything.
I ride FMB cx tubulars,
On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 11:02:08 AM UTC-7, Mark Reimer wrote:
Somewhere out there i remember seeing a slow-mo video of tires rolling
over the cobbles at Paris Roubaix. There was a lot of 'straight to the rim'
impact happening. I think the tubular choice has more to do with avoiding
On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 7:22:55 AM UTC-7, Mark Reimer wrote:
It's absolute madness to me that some guys run 23/25s!
I don't know. Most of the racers ride on tubular tires. If you listen to
all the tubular fanatics, nothing rides more smoothly than tubulars and
even at 23/25mm width,
And man, the one way I could ride over that stuff is with a monster 4 tire
bike . . . lol . .. but then I'd be riding so slow I'd just give it up and
head to a pub .
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Yeah, I had forgotten how tubulars allow lower pressures than equivalently
sized clinchers. That explains, at least partially, why wider tires are not
being used in the pro peloton. The extra weight of a fatter tire becomes a
hindrance to the multiple accelerations a racer has to make so the
Stating the obvious , In the commercial world of racing bikes, if you
want wider tires they call that a cross bike . Some teams use them too .
And seeing there are only a handful of races for a select set of riders
these would be considered there's no reason to make the racing frames take
Last year at Paris Roubaix, Quickstep were running 30mm dugast tubulars.
There are occasionally guys who race cross bikes too. A 30mm slick seems
like it would be a perfect tire for that race. It's absolute madness to me
that some guys run 23/25s!
On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 1:22:31 AM UTC-5,
Yes, they used a 30mm in the rear, but only a 28mm in front. I wonder if
fork clearance prevented the use of a 30mm in front and, had there been
sufficient clearance, they would have used a 30mm up front too.
23/25mm is indeed madness as is the lack of clearance on the race bikes
that are
Wow, that's about a hair's width of clearance between the tire and the
brake caliper. Tight doesn't begin to describe it!
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Paul G pauldowg...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, they used a 30mm in the rear, but only a 28mm in front. I wonder if
fork clearance prevented the
