Is this a clincher or a tubular? The person selling it told me it’s a tubular, but a friend told me that tubulars don’t use rim strips. (I’ve never owned a tubie, so I have no clue)
What’s your guess?
That’s a clincher.
Tubulars don’t have bead hooks
jaretj
Looks like a clincher to me. You will get posts from people who know more then me.
That is a clincher!
It’s a clincher. More than just rim strips, tubies don’t have sidewalls, they just a a slight ‘u’ or ‘v’ shaped depression in the rim.
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Without a doubt…a clincher.
Will Pratt
The Bike Barn
Penticton, BC
what do you kown about that…you only have post a few messages on this board…now…go back to work!
Thanks guys…just as I suspected. (I didn’t think a tubie would hold very well if glued to a rim strip!) Yup…always good to buy from a guy that doesn’t know what he’s selling, eh? I think I’ll pass on this one.
Not a tubie…but a nice wheel.
it’s a hed alps. just bought a set, they are nice wheels.
hed never made a tubular alps wheel (that’s the stinger)
and the rim bead and sidewall gives it away as well.
clincher
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…always good to buy from a guy that doesn’t know what he’s selling, eh? I think I’ll pass on this one.
so if someone was selling a painting and didn’t know it was a picasso, you’d pass?
Well, for non-bike weenies the phraseology gets a bit odd a tubie does not have use a tube? So if you asked he might have thought ya it uses a tube its not a solid wheel.
hed never made a tubular alps wheel (that’s the stinger)
Not true. The Alps come in clincher or tubular - has for at least the last three years. I own a set of Alps clinchers, and a guy on my team owns a set of 2004 Alps tubies.
The Alps tubie has an aluminum breaking surface, the Stinger tubie has a carbon breaking surface, and is way lighter.
"The Alps rims are structural carbon hoops with a lightweight alloy rim cap. An alloy rim section lets you brake confidently in any weather using any brake pad. The carbon section is high modulus cloth, laid over a structural foam core. The alloy cap is co-molded to the rim. To lower weight, the spokes pass through the carbon to anchor at the alloy section. No additional material is needed as a strain relief to counter spoke tension.
With a 55mm rim, the alps is rideable in almost any wind condition. If it is too windy for the Alps, it is probably too windy for any aero wheel.
Available in clincher and tubular, 650 and 700. Bladed 6/4 ti spokes front and bladed steel spokes rear. Sonic hubs. "
haha…i suppose if i could read, i’d have realized this. I think it might have been Speedy saying last week “why would you want the alps in a tubular wheel?” when the stinger is ultimately superior or something like that…
my bad :S
quick question then…on the tubular model, do you still true it through the rim?
The front has nipples on the front hub (below), but the back needs to be trued through the rim (pic in first post).
