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07-03-2004, 06:54 PM

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:29:15 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. 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.
>

Actually, in reading the material I had a little more closely, I
noticed that by 1908 there was a form of clincher on the market for
bikes; see the G&J Detachable Tire on page 170 of the 1908 Sears
catalog, pictured here:

http://www.instantattitudes.com/imag...s1908pg170.jpg

(It's a big image, about 400K)
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07-03-2004, 06:54 PM	#75 (permalink)
Werehatrack Posts: n/a	Re: Clinchers versus Tubulars On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:29:15 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. 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. > Actually, in reading the material I had a little more closely, I noticed that by 1908 there was a form of clincher on the market for bikes; see the G&J Detachable Tire on page 170 of the 1908 Sears catalog, pictured here: http://www.instantattitudes.com/imag...s1908pg170.jpg (It's a big image, about 400K) -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Surrealism is a pectinated ranzel.