Ride tubeless
Sep 07, 2022
3 minutes
Photography ROB MILTON
he tubeless car tyre was invented in 1952 and three years later was the industry standard, especially for performance vehicles. The tubeless bike tyre was invented in 1999 and three years later… no one was using it. Not in road cycling anyway. Mountain biking yes – the Hutchinson-Mavic UST system (Universal Systeme Tubeless) was beginning to catch on, but it was really only last year that tubeless road tyres made headway with the pros – Lizzie Deignan and Sonny Cobrelli won their respective Paris-Roubaix races on tubeless (a
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