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Hiya, I'm on the road bike a lot these days as I recover from the 'Puffer cracked kneecap. Bloody good fun and great progress...
I've been tubeless on all the off-road bikes for ages. Transformed my riding experience. Strikes me that tubs are roughly the equivalent for road wheels, and they've made a real comeback. The lovely country lanes round here (East Lothian) have terrible surfaces and pinch-flats are a real pain.
Should I go and buy a pair of tub rims and some glue?
Cheers, al.
al.
In a word, no. Tubs still have inner tubes inside them so can still puncture pretty easily, what you can't do however is fix them easily at the side of the road.
I race on tubs but don't use them for general riding or training because of the puncture factor.
[i]Strikes me that tubs are roughly the equivalent for road wheels[/i]
Not really. Tubeless road tyres are the equivalent of tubeless mtb tyres.
Ah, well. Thanks for setting me straight.
Why are they good then?
al.