Re: [CR] tubular tires and leather saddles

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From: "Charles Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:25:51 -0700
Subject: Re: [CR] tubular tires and leather saddles


quoth Jerry Moos, in part:

"If we are honest, I think we must admit that part of the continued niche interest in leather saddles and tubular tires is exactly their inconvenience, or to put it more kindly, the ritual connected with them."

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Uh. If I am honest I don't admit any such thing. Tubular tires STILL ride better, and make for lighter wheels, than any current clinchers. Period. And a Brooks B-17 is more comfortable than any modern saddle I've tried. And the titanium version is lighter than most saddles. If I could have a Titanium B-17 on every bike I own, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Jerry, we still ride sew-ups because they're BETTER. Not because of the inconvenience. You can't possible be serious when you suggest that any of us enjoy gluing up tubulars. You can't.

Charles Andrews Los Angeles

"everyone has elites; the important thing is to change them from time to time."

--Joseph Schumpeter, via Simon Johnson