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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: tubes vs tubeless? you decide.
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:20:25 -0500
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On 2/16/2025 4:04 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 2/16/2025 2:23 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>  It seems that fashion often transforms "better under this very 
>> limited circumstance" to "You gotta have this!!!"
>>
>> Really, most "modern" examples of bicycling fashion are chasing 
>> diminishing performance benefits. Any decent quality bicycle is an 
>> amazingly efficient machine. Aero cables, fancy bottom brackets, 
>> tubeless tires give practically unmeasurable performance benefits.
>>
>> And I suspect a fair number of tubeless setups are bought by people 
>> who never learned to fix a flat.
>>
>> But I'm an admitted retrogrouch.
>>
> 
> For road bikes that probably explains a lot of adopters, but there are 
> purposes for which tubeless (even in this current primitive state) 
> solves real problems.

Right. Those purposes constitute what I noted as "better under this very 
limited circumstance" above.



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- Frank Krygowski