A: Look closely and you'll see the spoke wheels on adventure bikes like BMW's GS and Yamaha's Ténéré can use tubeless tires because the spokes attach to the rim outside of the air chamber. Because the ...
The wooden and metal wheels of 19th-century horse-drawn carriages started to evolve when American chemist Charles Goodyear created vulcanization, a process that made rubber stronger and more elastic.
First introduced in their current clincher tyre plus inner tube guise in 1891, not a lot has changed for almost 150 years, ...
Tubes for the Himalayan’s tyres are also relatively harder to source due to the tyre sizes, which has further increased the complexity of fixing a puncture.
The folks at Ritchey are cranking out a bunch of new cyclocross components this summer. Last week we took a look at their new straight steerer disc and canti WCS carbon cyclocross forks, and today ...
Tubeless wheels are a standard in mountain biking but despite availability for several years now, tubeless tech for smoother road surfaces hasn’t caught on as quickly, despite claimed weight and ...
Road Tubeless Tech: Thinking of making the jump to tubeless? PEZ-Man Chuck Peña has leapt into the unknown and fitted a set of Pirelli Cinturatos to his Irwin Cycling AON TLR wheelset. Chuck runs ...
Tubeless mountain bike tires certainly improve on their conventional counterparts, but could they perform even better? The OPTIS insert is claimed to help them do so, by serving as an inflatable ...
Going tubeless for cyclocross is an attractive option for anyone tired of pinch-flatting clinchers or gluing and re-gluing (or flatting) expensive tubulars. Cyclocross Magazine has long experimented ...
Whether you are riding pure road or considering some gravel detours, tyre choice has a more significant influence on your riding experience than any other single component. Tyres mediate ride comfort, ...