| Re: Clinchers versus Tubulars
Rick Onanian writes:
>> Tubular tires, as we call them today were the only tires for cars
>> and bicycles in the early days of pneumatic tires and were just
>> called tires then. What sets them aside is that [today] tires have
>> an open casing that is held between the beads of the rim that is
>> also (U-shaped). This allows access to the tube in the event of a
>> puncture while the old tubulars could only be repaired by stuffing
>> rubber bands and glue into the hole.
> This is unclear. Did you mean "Clincher tires, as we call them
> today..."? Tubulars don't have an open casing held between U-shaped
> rim beads...
Tubular tires, as we call them today, were the only tires for cars and
bicycles in the early days of pneumatic tires, and were just called
tires then. A bit of context may have been lost in the above excerpt.
That was before the clincher was introduced. eg. All tires were
tubulars, as you can see on the web site Carl Fogel offered.
Jobst Brandt
jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org
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