Sujet : Re: tubes vs tubeless? you decide.
De : frkrygow (at) *nospam* sbcglobal.net (Frank Krygowski)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 17. Feb 2025, 04:20:25
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On 2/16/2025 4:04 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 2/16/2025 2:23 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
It seems that fashion often transforms "better under this very limited circumstance" to "You gotta have this!!!"
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Really, most "modern" examples of bicycling fashion are chasing diminishing performance benefits. Any decent quality bicycle is an amazingly efficient machine. Aero cables, fancy bottom brackets, tubeless tires give practically unmeasurable performance benefits.
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And I suspect a fair number of tubeless setups are bought by people who never learned to fix a flat.
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But I'm an admitted retrogrouch.
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For road bikes that probably explains a lot of adopters, but there are purposes for which tubeless (even in this current primitive state) solves real problems.
Right. Those purposes constitute what I noted as "better under this very limited circumstance" above.
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tubes vs tubeless? you decide.
Re: tubes vs tubeless? you decide.