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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