When I was a poor student and building a bike, I scored a great deal on a wheelset via wreck.bikes Usenet group. $60. Turned out it was tubular. 🤣 I read Jobst’s instructions on patching them (he was still active on the tech forum!), then put out a plea for used / punctured sewups. I got 4 of them for $10. I patched 3 successfully, and one forever had a leak. So I rode for two years on the bombed out streets of Berkeley on those wheels and tires, one tubular strapped under my seat, no flats!
Nowadays it’s either fat 650b tires from Jan or Vittoria sewups with latex tubes. I do have about 4 nice cross tires that need to be patched, so I’m thinking I’ll send them to TireAlert... Anyone use their services? Good experience? - Max “patching sewups during a pandemic is not a euphemism” in A2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d0135d7d-98c4-47a9-844a-33fcc373afc3%40googlegroups.com.
