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Michael Hutchinson

I'm still agnostic on tubeless tyres for road bikes – are they better or just different?

Dr Hutch on a penny farthing.

I wrote a column a couple of weeks ago about tyres. It was a sort of I-remember-the-bad-old-days piece about how much tyres have improved over the years. I stand by this opinion. But it triggered a different thought.

We need to talk about where we are with tubeless tyres. Two weeks ago I described a sort of, “bad… better… better… good!” trajectory on tyre performance. I missed out the final “… Uh? You want me to do what exactly?” that tubeless brought about.

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