Erik

Tubeless Road Tires are a new enough product that there isn't much real-world data just yet. Nothing that the marketing department hasn't tampered with, at any rate.

So all we have to go on at the present time is anecdotal reviews of people who now swear by Tubeless tires. I suppose if I dropped $900-$1400 on a new product, I'd want it to be everything I'd hoped for, too.

But on the issue of rolling resistance, the best info I've found comes from Jobst Brandt:

On Rolling Resistance -
http://sheldonbrown.com/brandt/rolling-resistance.html

On Tubulars -
http://sheldonbrown.com/brandt/rolling-resistance-tubular.html

> From: dsears@willamette.net
> To: obra@list.obra.org
> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:55:20 -0700
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Tubeless clinchers - fad or
>
> I can't find any rolling resistance data on that page, nor any mention of
> tubeless tires.
>
> --Doug Sears
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Cipale"
> To: "Harry Phinney"
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Tubeless clinchers - fad or
>
>
> Harry Phinney wrote:
>
> > Does anybody have (pointers to) rolling resistance data for the tubeless
> > vs tube question?
>
> Leave it to Sheldon Brown (RIP) to do the work for us:
> http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tires.html
>
> Joe
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