| Re: Clinchers versus Tubulars
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 23:47:50 GMT, jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org
wrote:
>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 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...
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Rick Onanian
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