Positions, skin suits, and tires are all orthogonal. There is nothing wrong with choosing the faster wheel/tire combo, whether or not your skin suit is terrible.
These things can be measured, you can do the math, and you can pick the best bet. Sometimes, depending on the wheels and tires available to you at any moment in time, clincher will be faster.
That is just the physics of it. Physics doesn't care what pros do and not all pros care about physics.
Grill wrote:
That was a long time ago. Considering the propensity for marginal gains, you'd think that at the very least most of the top TTers would have gone clincher by now if the advantage was easily quantifiable. Now that T's gone back to tubbies, there's no clincher love. Both have their place, but I find the constant back and forth a bit silly considering most people who worry about it have terrible positions and slow skinsuits.
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