Clinchers and inner tubes at Paris-Roubaix?

Published: March 11, 2021, 10:34 a.m.

b'Team Deceuninck-QuickStep and Bora-Hansgrohe \\u2014 together with sponsors Roval and Specialized \\u2014 have been doing a fair bit of experimenting with their wheels and tires over the past couple of years, gradually moving away from traditional tubulars to tube-type clinchers for time trials and tubeless clinchers for road races. In an unusual move, both teams say they\\u2019re now wholly committed to clinchers and latex inner tubes for everything \\u2014 even possibly (but not likely) Paris-Roubaix. To find out more about the surprising decision, James and Dave have a chat with Roval engineering manager Jeff Meyer, as well as three key players from the Deceuninck-QuickStep team: technical director Ricardo Scheidecker, team scientist and coach Koen Pelgrim, and head mechanic Nicolas Coosemans.'