Jack, I've bought many pairs of nice clincher wheels from list members or on eBay for $100 a pair, sometimes as low as $50. As a matter of fact I just got a nice pair of C-Record clincher wheels on eBay 15 minutes ago for $81.02. Pick up a pair if you really must have clinchers, but sewups are not as fragile as you may think. Try riding them at least occasionally.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Houston, TX
> Not seeing this subject broached since I've been on the list, I've
wondered
> how others handle this problem:
>
> I'm debating on what to do with the original sew-up wheels that came with
> some of my vintage bikes. For the casual riding I do, I prefer the
advantages of
> clinchers. I prefer not to spend hundreds for a spare set of nice
clincher
> wheels with Campy hubs (as I can sometimes buy an entire vintage bike for
this
> amount). Yet, I hesitate to destroy perfectly good original wheels by
> converting them to clinchers. As a consequence of this dilema, the sew-up
equipped
> bikes don't get ridden, which is perhaps the greatest loss.
>
> Jack Romans
> Sacramento, CA