Tubed clinchers just won their first Tour de France road stage – CyclingTips

Julian Alaphilippe’s late attack and early yellow jersey may bring a bit of déjà vu, but something else about his win was entirely new. Alaphilippe crossed the line on a set of clincher tires, the first road stage victory for clinchers with tubes in the Tour’s century-long history.
The vast majority (all but a small handful) of Tour stages have been won on tubular tires, all the way back to the earliest days of the race. In recent years, tubeless has begun to snag a stage here and there, but t…

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