Tubs for Skidding?

It pains my eye that there are so many relatively cheap and nice carbon wheelsets for sale, but because they are tubulars they seem to be "unusable" on a fixed gear bike on the road.

Anyway, that led me to thinking that it should be possible to ride on tubs on the road? I'm not a lunatic skidder, so with the right tires I guess it's possible? I'm using Durano Plus tires know and I rotate them every 9-10 months.
My friend is a bike mechanic and can glue on the tubs for cheap and better than I can.

What have I missed? Am I ready to go purchase my dream wheels and have fun on the streets or will I have to retire them to the track after a week?

FMB Service Course soie will do the job nicely at the rear.

"nice" and "tubular" do not a true sentence make.

You want Dugust silks for skidding. Super durable tubs, innit.

See post above. Dugast are for peasants.

FMB = fail miserably on the boards

Pista Speed is what HUUB guys use for their skids but the silks look cooler

fail miserably on the boards

LOLz

Conti Gatorskins would be ideal, every one that you explode will be an improvement.

surely schwalbe do a marathon plus tub

surely schwalbe do a marathon plus tub

They don't I'm afraid. Same with Durano Plus.

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I'm loving that 😅 And yes, I've been thinking that as well. I've never had a puncture though, and I don't think tubulars are much different in that regard.

Lol

Lol

Surely you can express yourself better than that..

LoL

He can only speak Urdu and TikTok

Anyway, that led me to thinking that it should be possible to ride on tubs on the road?

Yeah ‘should’ be possible. I mean every single professional cyclist in the world seems to get on ok with them!
I rode tubs exclusively on the road for about 20 years. Would I want to skid on them? No. 9 times out of 10 you’d probably be fine but you’d be literally ‘trying’ to roll them off the rim.
I do actually happen to have a lovely pair of carbon clincher wheels for sale...

Challenge Elite seem to be a cheap road one rated as durable / training. It does beg the question, why not just use a brake ... ? Then your front rim can have a something imitating a braking surface that is vaguely useful when combined with fixed drive & foot retension.

I think you should have got the idea by now. Yes, it is possible to skid on tubs, many of us have done so, accidentally. It would be a bloody stupid thing to do on purpose, expensive and dangerous.

Your cash, your teeth, your call.

Gator skin tubs are actually very good tyres- polar opposite of their clincher namesakes.

I imagine they would stand up to skidding roughly as you’d expect though- first few would be fine and then you’d be changing a tub on the side of the road (which is actually pretty easy tbh, easier than some clinchers I’ve had).

I used to ride my track bike to HH and back brakeless on tubs, at low speed and carefully admittedly.

This was not tearing round London’s famous London though.

This.
I road brklz on tubs for a while (about 10 yrs ago) - I started out with tape but the skidding ripped a valve out of the tub. This was rectified by moving to glue.
I even rode the olympic road route on brklz/tubs once (#csb)
I'm now a responsible citizen replete with front brake & clinchers

@Thuekr did some brklss touring on tubs BTID.