Storing Tubies...

So, the cross bike sits around for over half the year, as do the
tubies. What is the best way to store the wheels? Inflated?
Deflated? Somewhere in-between?

Thanks...

Phatykoko wrote:
So, the cross bike sits around for over half the year, as do the
tubies. What is the best way to store the wheels? Inflated?
Deflated? Somewhere in-between?

Tubular lore says half inflated in a dark place.

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:57:10 +0100, Zog The Undeniable
wrote:

Phatykoko wrote:
So, the cross bike sits around for over half the year, as do the
tubies. What is the best way to store the wheels? Inflated?
Deflated? Somewhere in-between?

Tubular lore says half inflated in a dark place.

And away from electric motors. :-)


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The Discovery channel had a special about Lance and the Tour...
There is a guy who is responsible for glueing Lance's tubulars to the
rims, (yes, they age the tubular tires...specifically the *glue* ...
for 3 years) stores the tubulars, glued on the rims, in a basement. I
don't know the humidity or temperature of the basement.

So I would say glue 'em to the wheels and age them for a season, if you
have the spare wheels, and train on some other wheels. Probably store
them in the basement or garage. Avoid extreme temperature swings and
sunlight. Sunlight will oxidize the rubber, and might adversly affect
the glue.

2WheelMotion wrote:
The Discovery channel had a special about Lance and the Tour...
There is a guy who is responsible for glueing Lance's tubulars to the
rims, (yes, they age the tubular tires...specifically the *glue* ...
for 3 years) stores the tubulars, glued on the rims, in a basement. I
don't know the humidity or temperature of the basement.

I saw the same special and the tires were NOT glued to rims. They were
sitting in piles, loose, not even kept particularly flat and round.

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On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:22:06 GMT, Victor Kan
wrote:

2WheelMotion wrote:
The Discovery channel had a special about Lance and the Tour...
There is a guy who is responsible for glueing Lance's tubulars to the
rims, (yes, they age the tubular tires...specifically the *glue* ...
for 3 years) stores the tubulars, glued on the rims, in a basement. I
don't know the humidity or temperature of the basement.

I saw the same special and the tires were NOT glued to rims. They were
sitting in piles, loose, not even kept particularly flat and round.

Dear Victor,

I wish that I could see the program.

You'd think that the Discovery Channel would show it again
during the Tour de France, but . . .

http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/ep...&channel =DSC

Drat.

Carl Fogel

I wish that I could see the program.

You'd think that the Discovery Channel would show it again
during the Tour de France, but . . .

http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/ep...&channel =DSC

Drat.

I'm not 100% sure, but they may have showed the same or a similar
segment on FitTV's 5-show Chasing Lance series (or at least I think they
talked to the same mechanic), which is being replayed.

I wouldn't be surprised if they replayed that show in the near future,
especially if Lance wins his 7th.

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wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:22:06 GMT, Victor Kan
wrote:

2WheelMotion wrote:
The Discovery channel had a special about Lance and the Tour...
There is a guy who is responsible for glueing Lance's tubulars to the
rims, (yes, they age the tubular tires...specifically the *glue* ...
for 3 years) stores the tubulars, glued on the rims, in a basement. I
don't know the humidity or temperature of the basement.

I saw the same special and the tires were NOT glued to rims. They were
sitting in piles, loose, not even kept particularly flat and round.

Dear Victor,

I wish that I could see the program.

You'd think that the Discovery Channel would show it again
during the Tour de France, but . . .

http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/ep...&channel =DSC

Drat.

Carl Fogel

Well, if you really want to see it...

http://tinyurl.com/cocmm

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:56:08 -0600, scribbled:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:22:06 GMT, Victor Kan
wrote:

2WheelMotion wrote:
The Discovery channel had a special about Lance and the Tour...
There is a guy who is responsible for glueing Lance's tubulars to the
rims, (yes, they age the tubular tires...specifically the *glue* ...
for 3 years) stores the tubulars, glued on the rims, in a basement. I
don't know the humidity or temperature of the basement.

I saw the same special and the tires were NOT glued to rims. They were
sitting in piles, loose, not even kept particularly flat and round.

Dear Victor,

I wish that I could see the program.

You'd think that the Discovery Channel would show it again
during the Tour de France, but . . .

http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/ep...&channel =DSC

Drat.

Carl Fogel

If you're technologically inclined and not so much concerned about
cross border media copyrights, it's available on several bittorrent
sites, such as this link:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/68256

-Slash
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-The Onion

On 13 Jul 2005 13:30:02 -0700, "Todd Tracy"
wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:22:06 GMT, Victor Kan
wrote:

2WheelMotion wrote:
The Discovery channel had a special about Lance and the Tour...
There is a guy who is responsible for glueing Lance's tubulars to the
rims, (yes, they age the tubular tires...specifically the *glue* ...
for 3 years) stores the tubulars, glued on the rims, in a basement. I
don't know the humidity or temperature of the basement.

I saw the same special and the tires were NOT glued to rims. They were
sitting in piles, loose, not even kept particularly flat and round.

Dear Victor,

I wish that I could see the program.

You'd think that the Discovery Channel would show it again
during the Tour de France, but . . .

http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/ep...&channel =DSC

Drat.

Carl Fogel

Well, if you really want to see it...

http://tinyurl.com/cocmm

Dear Todd,

Hmmm . . .

Not available until August 3.

Requires one of those new-fangled DVD things rather than my
steam-powered Simpsons VHS player (I'm going to get around
to seeing that last season episode one of these days.)

And I'd be paying $21.95 + $5.95 shipping just to see if
something really silly was said about tubulars.

I may be able to contain my raging interest.

But thanks for the link. Others may want to buy the DVD.

Carl Fogel