any advice about Chinese carbon bicycle rims?

Why on earth would you tour with a tubular? Expensive. delicate, hard to patch, very difficult to find a replacement tire.

A tubular tire has the tube sewn up inside the tire, and the whole thing is glued to the rim. They ride great, and are used by racers, but you don't want them out on the Camino.

I would not want a carbon rim either, unless it was paired with a disk brake.

newfydog said:

Why on earth would you tour with a tubular? Expensive. delicate, hard to patch, very difficult to find a replacement tire.

A tubular tire has the tube sewn up inside the tire, and the whole thing is glued to the rim. They ride great, and are used by racers, but you don't want them out on the Camino.

I would not want a carbon rim either, unless it was paired with a disk brake.

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Fully agree with this. Im a long distance bike tourer and would never touch a carbon wheel for touring. A good quality conventional rim will give many thousands of miles use and if you really abuse it you can true them up. My personal choice of rim is Mavic open pro 34 or 36 hole. It is nearly unbreakable and as light as can be. Ive done about 25000 miles on a pair and they are light enough for me to still be able to give the fast boys in my cycling club (who are using fibre everything) a real run for the money. Thry are strong to. I weigh about 230 lbs and when I tour I take a tent (some camino hostels favour walkers and I have been asked to give up my place in favour of walkers. I am always happy to do this - hence the tent). Despite using "conventional old fashioned rims" I can get from Valance (France) to Santiago de la Compostella in 12 days. Save your money and leave carbon rims for your racing bike.

You are right about tubulars and clinchers. Nothing would persuade me to ride a tube tyre unless I was a tour de france type with a back up team. Touring needs touring kit. If you want to go fast try an audax bike. If your bike is too stiff (remember stiffness = efficient = fast) you will be the component that fails on a long run. Unless you really are a TDF rider!

The OP has not returned to the Forum to benefit from members kindly comments. As a Moderator I would normally class this sort of stuff as Spam but I know little (nothing) about bicycles since I swapped my Raleigh for a Triumph some 5 decades ago. Was it a serious question from a potential pilgrim on a bike or just a plug?

Dear Tincatinker

I had not though about it being a plug. Wish I gad before replying as it would be a really really daft thing to do. Hence my rather full response.
Probably worth dealing with as spam on reflection.

Thanks and best regards

Nicholas.y

@Nicholas Johnson thank you. Yours was a genuine response to a, possibly, genuine question. I'm out of my knowledge zone hence my post. I tested the posted link and it doesn't seem 'dirty'. Maybe the OP will come back and explain why they are recommending an unsuitable solution to a tyre question.

I wondered about that but figured my emphatic reply would either be harsh but good advice or a suitable backfire for his plug.