• lemon dragonfly (cool name actually), the 2 types of tyres being discussed at the moment are very different, in design and application. Whereas a clincher tyre is open, so that you can insert a tube (before inflating it), a tubluar tyre has no open section. Its round, closed. The tyre you could say has a built-in tube, and therefore, once glued carefully in place, its then inflated on the rim. The glue hold the tubular tyre to a tubular rim, but the hook/lips of the open part of the clincher tyre, hooks to the lips of the rim, and inflation secures it more firmly.

    Yeah, cool, i understand, I used to be a mechanic, and changing tires was not my most favorite part of the job, I understand the principal behind it, and yes i was lucky not to be going down hill, i was just in the middle of bank intersection about 4.5 k from home :)

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