On 4 Aug 2005 07:23:11 -0700, "41"
wrote:


wrote:

How do you eliminate pinch flats?

I'm sure that all those retarded fellows involved in
Paris-Roubaix would appreciate your instructions.

Sorry Carl, I prefer to watch "So You Think You Can Dance?" on
television. Their moves are much more interesting than yours, which are
predictable, endless, and circular. Didn't we begin this by you telling
us how the pros prevent pinch flats, with their secret sauce, instead
of what we poor, low kinetic energy, weak-kneed, clincher-riding
retirees and plebians have to make do with, F = P*A?

wrote:
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# Dear Tom,
#
# Most of the Tour de France is ridden on tubulars.

# You also expect to have fewer impact flats, even at lower
# and more comfortable pressures, because the tublar tire and
# rim don't tend to pinch things like a clincher rim.

So another CF circle-dance moves to its logical conclusion.
,

Dear 41,

Why, yes, the pros do tend to use tubulars instead of
clinchers to reduce impact flats at the same pressu

"Winning tyre [Continental Competition tubular] at the last
THREE Paris-Roubaix races . . ."

http://www.conti-tyres.co.uk/conticy...petition.shtml

"Winner of 10 Paris-Roubaix, Pavè [tubular] . . ."

http://www.cbike.com/vittoria_tires.htm

Carl Fogel