Track Tyres, Indoor and Out

All Derby hire bikes are on clinchers I think.

Hire bikes-- versus loaner bikes--- are nearly always heavy clinchers inflated to just under 8 bar (versus 12 bar or more for any tubular). It is just a question of economics, need and liability. Tubulars have much higher demands on the mechanics. An improperly glued tyre is quite dangerous. Good track tyres are expensive and don't last forever. Hire bikes too are typically limited to newcommers. They don't get used in higher level competition. A typcal hire bike tyre is the wire bead Vittoria Rubino: heavy, robust and cheap (10 EURO). They don't handle well but they don't really have to...