Any interest in sprint wheels for tubs?

[Glug]

Condor are selling Vittoria Corsa Control 30mm for £35 at the moment - I've already got some.
https://www.condorcycles.com/collec...toria&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=

Vittoria have stopped making them so stock up.
I've done about 2.5k miles on those with no flats - I discovered Orange Seal.

 

[bikeworkshop]

It was ok when Vittoria offered a tyre for £14, or bike shops had an old fella whod fix them for a tenner, but those days are gone.

It's not cheap retro biking for sure,

Although you could probably get the same level campag/aci/mavic sprints for £50 less than the equivalent clinchers,
its over £100 to get 2 tyres and a spare!

 

[Nob]

Sadly no more Clement No.3’s as they sung beautiful on good roads back in the day….

 

[bikeworkshop]

Sadly no more Clement No.3’s as they sung beautiful on good roads back in the day….

Tubular tyres ride really nicely,
I think it's because the tyre body stretches all the way round, so they feel a fast as their width, but with the smoothness of one size bigger clincher.
Trouble is you need to carry a spare, and a puncture is often treated as unfixable.
There's surely an online fixer, but you'd need to send a few over at once to justify 2 way postage

 

[Glug]

I've used tubulars for the last 4 years (about 5k miles) and only had flats before I knew about sealant.

First flat after 86 miles - added Orange Seal - fixed
2 flats 1 year later - realised I had to top up the Orange Seal as per instructions.

So I've never learnt how to mend them and I've had to replace no tyres so far - don't even carry a spare.
Then again I'm riding in London so I could always get home on public transport or a taxi.

But I do like the ride

 

[jim haseltine]

I've not ridden tubulars this century. I've thought about it but to be honest, clincher technology has moved on so far from when I were a lad that I can't justify anything else.
A couple of weeks back I bought a bike just for the frame which was fitted with load of awful modern kit including an unused set of Campagnolo Hyperon Ultra Two carbon sprints shod with Continental Giros so now I've got to find a home for them.