Erik Voldengen
2008-02-28
Well, consider this:
The track is banked at something like 43 degrees. As someone who's
fallen from the VERY top, I can attest that it's a long ways down.
If you get a puncture on that banking, odds are a clincher will come
off. Riding a bare rim on the 43 degree banking would probably suck.
If you puncture with a tubular, it will at least stay on the rim,
giving you enough traction to make it to the infield.
-Erik