The new wheels before I gummed them all up. It's amazing how carefully adding a half tube of rubber cement, just the way it's meant to be done; an interim step in the life of every tubular rim, can be so aesthetically alarming.
Of course, that's nothing compared to seating the glued up tire on the glued up rim: a physical conundrum as opposed an intellectual issue. It seems to me that anyone who rides enough to benefit from tubular wheels can't possibly have the upper body strength required to seat a new [freshly stretched] tire. I had to enlist my sixteen year old son to help get it in place and we still struggled. On the up side, I'm a lot less worried about rolling it in a race.
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