On Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 1:59:54 PM UTC+8, Joe Bernard wrote: > > I've always been fascinated by roadies hardcore enough to ride tubulars > and doing the patching/sewing job on flats. I don't have a clue how they do > it, but it's cool!
Joe, it's actually not that hard. The patching part is identical to patching tubes from clinchers. The extra bit is finding where the puncture is, so that only the threads near it are unraveled, so as to pull the tube out for patching. After that, it's stuffing the tube back and trying to sew the bit that was unraveled. The stitches only need to be even and doesn't have to look good, because it's all glued back anyway. The harder part of using tubulars, to me at least, is mounting the damn things *straight and even* onto the rim, *without* getting glue everywhere. Yes, I know about using tubular tape, but that seems a bit like cheating, plus it's rumored to not have as nice a ride nor hold as well. To be honest, if you *only* ride tubulars, it's not that bad because there's efficiency of scale (both in setup and practice of manual labor); it's only annoying when you have to take everything out for one set of tubulars, and discover that the glue's dried or your fingers aren't nearly as strong as you remembered. -- 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/5c6a10fe-5fc9-4b28-8591-73bd55ff62b5%40googlegroups.com.
