Wild Enduro vs Magic Mary/Big Betty

[Haakon]

It’s still a no from me…

But it’s a roadie, so you don’t need to care

 

[moorey]

But it’s a roadie, so you don’t need to care

And yet I do.

 

[ForkinGreat]

But it’s a roadie, so you don’t need to care

A proper hipster would run tan-wall cotton casing tubular tyres on their road bike.

 

[leitch]

A proper hipster would run tan-wall cotton casing tubular tyres on their road bike.

All about the open tubulars these days mate. Tubs are dead.

 

[Haakon]

A proper hipster would run tan-wall cotton casing tubular tyres on their road bike.

Can you even get disc brake specific rims for tubulars…?

 

[oliosky]

All about the open tubulars these days mate. Tubs are dead.

Having actually raced road on glued open tubulars in the late 90s as a gear restricted teenager. Kill yourself. Because those tires will at some point, and at least you've got some say in how you meet your maker.

 

[leitch]

Can you even get disc brake specific rims for tubulars…?

Yes, but they're less and less common. Weird Belgian CX purists who refuse to run anything other than Dugast are basically the target market now.

Having actually raced road on glued open tubulars in the late 90s as a gear restricted teenager. Kill yourself. Because those tires will at some point, and at least you've got some say in how you meet your maker.

Haha, "open tubular" is the marketing guff used by Vittoria/Challenge/some others to denote their fancy cotton carcass clinchers that are made like a traditional tub, but with a clincher bead - "open tubular". Tubeless has probably just about killed that too though because strangely cotton sidewalls don't seal up all that well

 

[beeb]

Tubs are dead.

@Tubbsy - RUOK?

 

[oliosky]

Yes, but they're less and less common. Weird Belgian CX purists who refuse to run anything other than Dugast are basically the target market now.

Haha, "open tubular" is the marketing guff used by Vittoria/Challenge/some others to denote their fancy cotton carcass clinchers that are made like a traditional tub, but with a clincher bead - "open tubular". Tubeless has probably just about killed that too though because strangely cotton sidewalls don't seal up all that well

For real? So a clincher tire that looks like a tubular road tire, but isn’t? Doesn’t get much more fkn Melbourne than that.

 

[Haakon]

For real? So a clincher tire that looks like a tubular road tire, but isn’t? Doesn’t get much more fkn Melbourne than that.

Stupid Melbourne...

Hey, wait a minute! I resemble that remark!