News from the tubular testing front, they are fast if you over glue!

A very interesting post over at Bike Tech Review....

It appears that the old track axiom of over glueing may have some basis. Adding an extra two layers of glue (3 for rim, 2 for tubular, instead of the suggested 2 for rim and 1 for tubular), at least using Mastik, may result in a lower CRR...

Not recommended for Tri-Guys though if you want to be able to fix a flat in a race... The tester reports that it took him a day to remove a tubular glued in this fashion...

Glued in this fashion a Vitorria Crono dropped down to 0.00235.. a substantial improvement over the previously reported 0.00276 when lightly glued. And possibly gettting it close to the "fastest" tire in the AFM list.

I am just half way through glueing a new Pista on a Zipp 404 front wheel for the track racing season... So it's out to put another coat of glue on... instead of just the final mount... I should have mounted it yesterday, but got busy... then stumbled across this tonight..