any body know what glue to use for linhof leather thats coming off?

Kirk Keyes said:

Carbon rims - wow! I'm living in the past. I was gluing up Dourdoigne tubulars onto Arc-en-Ciel rims.

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I normally ride rims in the 400g class like Mavic Montherly-pros, Fiamme Reds etc. They are, however, much heavier than these:

(a picture from Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum)
--- when the WC football game is over (right now the streets seems to be continously covered in glass) I might take them back onto the streets with the last of my silks (yes, to the unitiated there are silk tyres).

The Dourdoignes were crap. I don't think I ever got more than 200 miles on one before a blowout. So I guess the Pastali was a good match... This was all around 1984 or so.

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By the 1980s I moved over pretty much to Continental. These days I ride whatever I have around.

It does not matter much since I'm typically pulling a kiddie trailer-- and the little ones are getting heavy, pushing with the tailer now a good 60 kg.-- so its moot to talk about rolling resistance or aerodynamics.. but still.

My daily ride has right now some special magenta coloured Competitions that were riden once by a not to be named ex-team sprinter.. Before these I had some Vittoria tires.. the same model I rode and found junk.. but these from an Italian team were really good and I rode them literally untill they fell apart and the rubber wore out..

tufo makes the best tubs IMHO

I really like tufos, they are tubeless and i use there sealent to fix flats. They ride nice and i dont get many flats. I also use the tufo two sided tape which unfortunately would not work on my camera. I have tubs on my fixed gear street bike. ceramic reflex on phil woods with big bladed spokes

edz said:

By the 1980s I moved over pretty much to Continental.

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Nice wheels! By that time, a friend was using Continentals and pumping them up to 200 psi as they claimed they would go that high in the ads. I think I went to Vittorias after the Dourdoignes and then I gave up on competitive cycling... Now I'm on clinchers for riding. Still have the Arc-en-Ciels in the basement.

Now that we've hijacked the thread - How do you guys think that Ulrich will do in the Tour? I'm hoping for Basso to take the yellow, as I'd like to see a return to the days when top riders try to win more than just the Tour de France every year, (i.e. Lance).

ULRICH will win

I like that he has not given up and keeps trying every year, I really think it would be a good lesson for the kids if that determination gets him another win. Basso looks good, floyd looks tough, a lot of talent this year, a lot of early mornings in front of the TV.

bicycletricycle said:

I really like tufos, they are tubeless and i use there sealent to fix flats. They ride nice and i dont get many flats. I also use the tufo two sided tape

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I would not use tape. Get good mastic.

- http://www.bsn.com/cycling/tubulars.html (my own ramblings)
- http://www.bsn.com/cycling/articles/cements.html (Calvin Jones and Colin S. Howat)

Kirk Keyes said:

Now that we've hijacked the thread - How do you guys think that Ulrich will do in the Tour?

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He is looking worse then his typical out-of-form-into-form... Basso has better asset management in a better team. Bjarne is also a good directeur sportif who also understands Ullrich's workings and weaknesses--- what can I say, Ullirch went to the wrong team at an important time in his development selecting money over cycling.

This Tour is going to be a bit confusing.. and I fear drug scandals might be tossing some wooden shoes ("Sabots") yet again...