Re: [CR]Tires - Clincher , Wired-On , Single-Tube - was - Austro-Daimlertire question

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:25:13 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: "C.R. List" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Tires - Clincher , Wired-On , Single-Tube - was - Austro-Daimlertire question
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Raoul Delmare wrote:
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> 13.) And , I used to try hard to always call the modern sew-up tires ,
> "sew-ups" , and never "tubulars" . I was careful about those terms
> because modern tires were not truly tubular . The old single-tube tires
> were genuinely tubular . But the sew-ups had a seam ! Today however ,
> modern tires have become seamless once again !

I'd say that tubulars (you call them sew-ups, the Brits call them tubs, the Italians call them tubulars) are tubular. The old single-tubes are called single-tubes. Seamless doesn't enter into it that I can see.

Chuck "large and small, not high and low" Schmidt South Pasadena

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