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Clinchers and inner tubes at Paris-Roubaix?
Nerd Alert Podcast
English - March 11, 2021 10:34 - 59 minutes - ★★★★★ - 346 ratingsSports Technology equipment race bicycle bike cycle cycling cyclingtips cyclist pro professional Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Team Deceuninck-QuickStep and Bora-Hansgrohe — together with sponsors Roval and Specialized — have been doing a fair bit of experimenting with their wheels and tires over the past couple of years, gradually moving away from traditional tubulars to tube-type clinchers for time trials and tubeless clinchers for road races. In an unusual move, both teams say they’re now wholly committed to clinchers and latex inner tubes for everything — even possibly (but not likely) Paris-Roubaix. To find out more about the surprising decision, James and Dave have a chat with Roval engineering manager Jeff Meyer, as well as three key players from the Deceuninck-QuickStep team: technical director Ricardo Scheidecker, team scientist and coach Koen Pelgrim, and head mechanic Nicolas Coosemans.