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Tubs are for racing and pro's.... Not for commuting. Anyone who has had to rip one off and fit another in the pouring rain... Only to have that one fail 2 miles later and walk home on cleats will tell you the same.
Sure, you can get some bombproof ones, but then having a wooden tyre rather negates the point of using tubs in the first place. Every tyre will fail if you ride through a big pile of broken glass. You may as well run the same tyre as a clincher with a latex tube and be able to whack a new tube in there after you've dug the glass out - as opposed to binning a £40 tub.