Originally Posted by
tFUnK
Makes me want to take apart old tubular tires to see what are inside.
Just a tube. If it's a nice tire, a latex tube, and a chafing strip of thin cloth to protect the tube from the stitching and seam.
And the tread is just a strip of rubber compound either cemented or vulcanized to the cloth casing. Sometimes with a kevlar layer sandwiched in between.
Clement made a tire called the Paris-Roubaix. 26 mm of silk casing, latex tube and chafing strip, and a thin layer of closed-cell foam sandwiched beneath the tread. Pure luxury for the pave.
We used to repair them after the ride, over a couple beers. Then I moved to Boulder, where they paid other people to repair them. Nowadays, people just throw them out.