Greatest cycling invention of the last 25 years?

[PaulSB]

As a touring cycle owner and from what I've seen from long term travelling cyclists a tube is far more practical than tubeless. Road bikes all seem to be about weight and saving it.

I would say you and several others have completely missed the points tubeless users, very ordinary cyclists like me, have repeatedly made about them. As I said it's a marmite thing. What it is absolutely not about for the vast majority of amateurs riders is weight saving................it would be easier and cheaper to drink 2 - 3 pints of beer less a week to reduce weight.

 

[Alex321]

As a touring cycle owner and from what I've seen from long term travelling cyclists a tube is far more practical than tubeless. Road bikes all seem to be about weight and saving it.

You should probably use the word "occasionally" rather than "all" there. Most outside the ones specifically designed for racing aren't that concerned about weight.

And tubeless has nothing to do with weight, it is about reducing punctures and improving comfort (by allowing lower tyre pressures without risking snakebite punctures)

 

[Dogtrousers]

Road bikes all seem to be about weight and saving it.

Get with it man, aero is where it's at these days. Weight is old hat.

 

[Punkawallah]

Get with it man, aero is where it's at these days. Weight is old hat.

Aero? That’s so this morning. ‘Big tyres’ is the way forward, now!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Watched GCN Tech the other night and raised bars may be the next big thing!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Watched GCN Tech the other night and raised bars may be the next big thing!

What, are they all going to be riding Raleigh Choppers?

Actually, the UCI should mandate this.

 

[Punkawallah]

What, are they all going to be riding Raleigh Choppers?

Actually, the UCI should mandate this.

They had Chopper grass-track racing at York cycling festival last year - I could see it catching on.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

According to Cycling Weekly, the next big thing is 32" wheels -

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/produ...when-will-they-arrive-and-does-it-even-matter