Originally Posted by
JohnJ80
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I ride in a rural area where the roads can be pretty sketchy with respect to pavement "defects." When I switched to tubulars (also tubeless tubulars from Clement or Tufo) my number of punctures dropped from 6-8 in 2500 miles to 0-1 in about 3500 miles. A big part of that was getting rid of pinch flats and the rest of it was due to the tubeless nature of the tubulars I ride where the sealant seals up smallish punctures.
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Waaaay better in anything that does not cut the case outright. Glass, thorns - that kind of stuff just flats everything. So sealant makes sense to me, or a spare tube or two. I converted back to clinchers as I ride coastal CA where kids like to smash beer bottles on the bike trail and goat head thorns are the local flower. You can't fight-em.
Cobbles, rocks, pot holes - nothing beats tubulars for road. A lot of other surfaces, it really does not matter so much.