I said "that race", which was earlier this year, but I failed to mention the name ... which was the very old, very classic Paris-Roubaix.
Ciao, Mark Agree Southfield, Michigan, USA ~ ~ ~
In a message dated 7/7/2010 8:45:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jmpiwonka@yahoo.com writes:
he rode FMB tubulars...
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jeff piwonka
austin texas usa
> From: FujiFish1@aol.com <FujiFish1@aol.com>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] Are tubulars obsolete on off-topic race bikes?
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 7:34 PM
\r?\n> It was reported on Versus that Fabian
\r?\n> Cancellara rode specially hand made
\r?\n> tubulars for that race ... which he won (whether with or
\r?\n> without a bottom
\r?\n> bracket motor hidden in his seat tube). A few years
\r?\n> ago while Lance was
\r?\n> still on top, it was reported on OLN (now Versus) that all
\r?\n> of the team's
\r?\n> tubulars were stored for something like months or even two
\r?\n> years IIRC, partially
\r?\n> inflated in stacks, in a dark, cool basement, and
\r?\n> they showed footage of
\r?\n> it ... probably on "The Lance Chronicles" or the
\r?\n> like. I'd say that our
\r?\n> beloved tubulars are still very much a part of modern
\r?\n> professional racing,
\r?\n> even at the highest level.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Ciao,
\r?\n> Mark Agree
\r?\n> Southfield, Michigan, USA
\r?\n> ~ ~ ~
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:50:00 -0400
\r?\n> From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Are tubulars obsolete on off-topic race
\r?\n> bikes?
\r?\n> To: CR List _ClassicRendezvous@bikelist.org_
\r?\n>
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\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Here's something that I wonder about regarding the
\r?\n> kind of tires used in
\r?\n> road racing in the classic era compared to the
\r?\n> present. From what I
\r?\n> recall, in the early 1980s racers always used
\r?\n> tubulars unless they were
\r?\n> just starting out and couldn't afford them or were
\r?\n> overwhelmed by the
\r?\n> maintenance required. However, in that decade fast,
\r?\n> lightweight
\r?\n> clinchers were starting to appear. From that time
\r?\n> onwards, more and more
\r?\n> serious road riders switched to the new clinchers and
\r?\n> more racers used
\r?\n> them. Something I've always heard about tubulars is
\r?\n> that with all other
\r?\n> things being equal, such as weight, section,
\r?\n> materials, tread and rim
\r?\n> weight, they were still faster and felt livelier than
\r?\n> clinchers. So,
\r?\n> what I want to know is, do pro racers today still
\r?\n> mostly use tubulars?
\r?\n> Certainly, they wouldn't have to worry about changing
\r?\n> them or fixing
\r?\n> them themselves. In today's stage of the Tour, George
\r?\n> Hincapie said he
\r?\n> had to ride one kilometre on a flat tire before he
\r?\n> got a new wheel. One
\r?\n> of the advantages of tubulars I've heard is that
\r?\n> they're not as
\r?\n> dangerous and squirrelly to ride when flat. Would the
\r?\n> teams in the Tour
\r?\n> be using tubulars on clinchers? This may sound
\r?\n> off-topic, but it's the
\r?\n> tires I want to know about. I know that many classic
\r?\n> bike owners have
\r?\n> switched to clinchers for ease of maintenance, even
\r?\n> though the bikes
\r?\n> originally came with tubulars.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> --
\r?\n> John Betmanis
\r?\n> Woodstock, Ontario
\r?\n> Canada
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