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Amazing ridership with disintegrating wheel
On 7 Mar, 17:11, Tim McNamara wrote:
In article , *Peter Rathmann wrote: On Mar 6, 2:50*pm, Tim McNamara wrote: Track tandem blows a front tire, and in Flintstone fashion the front carbon fiber disc wheel *gets smaller and smaller until it looks like they are brought down by a pedal strike. *Amazing that the captain kept it upright as long as he did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngv7Iu3y1o0 Tubular wheels are frequently credited as being more rideable than clincher ones in the event of a puncture. *Guess that doesn't apply to light carbon fiber disc models. I don't know why that myth exists. *A flat tubular is more likely to come off the rim than a flat clincher IME. -- "I wear the cheese, it does not wear me." A stuck tub stays stuck even with deflation. Motor paced and events with sprinting should have their tyres shellacked in place. Wired on tyres are never safe on the track because of the loss of control which is inherrent when using a lightweight cover which becomes quickly deflated. |
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Amazing ridership with disintegrating wheel
On 9 Mar, 23:51, * Still Just Me *
wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:49:45 -0800 (PST), " wrote: Dear Chalo, Some improved spoked wheels may be as good or even better than disks in zero side wind, but nothing else does as well as a disk with a side wind, where the sail effect can actually produce a slight negative drag. Isn't that video of an indoor track? The wind would be minimal indoors, I'd wager :-) I'd rather be outdoors when the audience is fuelled up on burgers and beers. |
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