Re: [CR]Warning about Cheep Tubulars!

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

From: Jerry & Liz Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: <Roadgiant@cs.com>, <sterlingpeters@hotmail.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <ba.1cd11fea.2927fcaa@cs.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Warning about Cheep Tubulars!
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:17:19 -0600


I haven't done that yet, but I've had very good luck with them so far. They may not give the feel of fine hand-made tubulars, and they may fail sooner from "normal wear", but the real world is not one of normal wear, but one of glass-strewn roads, and the Kevlar Rallys survive that better than expensive tubulars. As one who gave up repairing tubulars about 1973 after a couple of attempts that resulted in tire bulges that looked like malignant tumors, nothing ruins my day like throwing away a 2 month old $60 tubular because of a glass cut. This doesn't happen as often with cheap Kevlar belted ones, and when it does, chucking a $10 tire is not nearly as stressful. Until the rest of the beer drinkers in Texas follow my example by depositing their bottles in a trash receptacle rather than the roadway, I'll continue to uses these tires.

Regards,

Jerry Moos


----- Original Message -----
From: Roadgiant@cs.com
To: sterlingpeters@hotmail.com
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [CR]Warning about Cheep Tubulars!



> But then again I've ridden 1500 miles on a pair of Vittoria Kevlar 3D Rally
> Tubulars with no flats and no problems. And they were $10 bucks each.
>
>
> Scott 'Cheap" Smith
> in the overcast San Fernando valley