I’ve been using a Hed Jet 60 tubular as my front wheel but just sold it and plan to replace with a Specialized tri spoke and a Campy Shamal to use on windy days. Both will be tubulars.
Just got the Shamal. It has a 38mm depth rim. Just noticed that the stem on the tubular comes just to the end of the rim so I can’t attach the airpump to the valve. With similiar clincher wheels I’ve simply bought longer stem inner tubes. Did a google search under the words “long stem” and “tubular” and came up short. Do they make long stem tubulars? With the Hed I never had to buy any because of the extension valve. The extension valve for the Hed is too wide for the Campy Shamal.
I know this sounds like Cerveloguy is a real dummy, but I’ve never seen this before. So how do I get air into my tubular when it’s glued to the Shamal? Thanks in advance and I’ll never live this one down.
Much thanks. It must be that the Hed valve extender is a little wider. I’ll order a Campy one. Thanks again.
You can take out the black plastic shim that is in the rim and the Hed will fit. All you do is pop it down and then fish it out with a spoke nipple. The Campy extender though as cool as it is can be a pain as it has its own spring and stop for pressure in it. I myself prefer the Zipp extender as it has a 4mm allen integrated into it to help with tightening it. No matter what you go with make sure that you use plenty of Teflon tape on the threads.
And no, I have never seen a long stem tubular either.
In addition to the teflon tape, I dab a wee bit of loctite on the knurled valve nut and open it to the full open position before I screw on the HED extender. If I dont do this, I find that after a few rides, road vibration causes the nut to rattle closed making it impossible to top off the tube. Panaracer also makes a more complicated extender that has a shaft inside with a gripper that allows you to close the valve after you fill up.
“All you do is pop it down and then fish it out with a spoke nipple.”
Thanks for the tip. Only a true Campyphile would know this. It rattled around inside the rim for awhile but eventually I got it.
That may be the best compliment I have recieved all year!!! Glad it worked out for ya.
Another tip on the Shamal…go to Sears and buy a 5.5mm (I think) socket end screw driver. You will want to take this driver and put it to a grinder and take off some of the outside diameter of the socket. You can use this to true the wheel while you hold the spoke steady with a Crecent wrench. This will save you about $45.00 for the Campy tool to true it and holding the spoke will make sure that the spoke does not just spin.
I have only needed to true a Shamal once…on July 5th this year after a HUGE wind storm (110mph winds for about 2 hours) a 12 year old bariatric girl on a Freespirit decided that she wanted a better look at my Softride and went ramming speed right into my front wheel…she won (based on inertia)…other than that, never needed to try my Shamals after over 7000 miles on them.