Clinchers for CX - Who is racing on them?

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Permalink Reply by Martin Turek on September 4, 2013 at 10:59am

Thx. Just trying my best to let guys get stuff at decent prices.  The road season is ending so I do not keep strock of Wires and my Drakos inventory has just drained.  If anyone needs Wires or Drako in full sizes Euro colors ping me; 1/2 sizes will be available again in January.  Cheers

P.S. It takes on average 3 weeks for my orders to arrive from Europe.

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Permalink Reply by jcambrosini on July 22, 2013 at 5:22pm

I started out on clinchers, switched to tubulars, and then back to clinchers.  The tubulars were awesome - but way too much maintenance - not to mention the mental stress of thinking that they were going to roll on me around some hard decent.  I rolled a tubular in a race once.  That, plus the hours spent gluing and regluing and cleaning the rims made me realize they were not worth it for my level of racing.  

I use Michelin Mud-2's, or Maxxis Raze - both good and recommended Cross clinchers.  There are a lot of other new clinchers out there - check Specialized and Challenge - which have received very positive reviews.

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Permalink Reply by jcambrosini on August 30, 2013 at 7:31am

I have an update - I just purchased some Challenge Fango open tubulars (i.e. clinchers).  Wow! - they really feel like the tubular version I ran a few years go - the only difference being, I could run the tubs about 10-12 psi lower.  These seem like the best clinchers I used so far - the key is in the supple casing - 300 tpi.  They are much better than my Mud-2's for both traction while cornering and also mud shedding, so I'm looking forward to racing on them this year. 

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Permalink Reply by Aaron J on August 30, 2013 at 7:04pm

Same psi as the Mud-2s but a better overall ride?

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Permalink Reply by David B on August 13, 2013 at 9:07pm

Everyone I know rides clinchers, some tubeless! I've seen tublars but not many.

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Permalink Reply by StokedRad on August 17, 2013 at 12:52pm

all clinchers for road riding and the meager bit of racing I still do

tubulars for cross racing and race practices

clinchers for general cross riding and adventuring, but beginning to lean towards tubeless here, may experiment this year

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Permalink Reply by t.hudson on August 25, 2013 at 6:28pm

I am running the full line up of |Clement clinchers on Easton Tubeless wheels and love them.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Bryant on August 29, 2013 at 6:46pm

Going to give Shimano 6700 tubeless clinchers and Kenda Kommando tubeless a try. So far in training they have felt great. Although I have never ridden tubulars.

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Permalink Reply by Simon Biel on August 30, 2013 at 5:04pm

How low of a PSI are you running with that combo?

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Permalink Reply by Greg Bryant on August 31, 2013 at 6:41pm

I am running 30-32 front, and 35 rear. I do add about 5 psi on rooty single track. I have had NO issues with burping, just don"t like the sound of my rims bottoming out. I'm 165 lbs.

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Permalink Reply by jcambrosini on August 31, 2013 at 4:53am

Btw I was running the new challange fango clinchers at 40-45 psi during some practice runs with no issues. I'm 185lbs. I ran the Mud 2's about the same but the fangos are much more grippy and I don't feel nearly the amount of bumps.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Church on September 4, 2013 at 6:36am

Are you running the Fangos tubeless?  If so on what rims?

Thanks for the info, I'd love to run those on my Stan's 340s but have heard that the Challlenge clinchers aren't good for tubeless setups.

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