This talk of Dunlop valves got me to thinking of cycling terminology that's dying out. When I was young, you either rode "HP"s, or "singles". Now with the Internet corrupting our language, people call HPs "clinchers" and singles "tubulars".
While I can understand the term "singles", I'm having a little difficulty working out where "HP" comes from... I mean, there were no "LP"s (except what ya put on a record player). I know HP stands for "High Pressure", but wonder as to the origins of the term, and why it was so widely used in Oz until recently...
On 2006-07-02, suzyj (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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Hi guys,
This talk of Dunlop valves got me to thinking of cycling terminology that's dying out. When I was young, you either rode "HP"s, or "singles". Now with the Internet corrupting our language, people call HPs "clinchers" and singles "tubulars".
While I can understand the term "singles", I'm having a little difficulty working out where "HP" comes from...
It's the sauce you put on the clincher tubes when you need to patch them and run out of volcanic glue.
HTH, HAND.
-- TimC
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It was... weird. Death was smaller than I imagined
I have nothing to say, I just can't resist quoting this out of context. -- Steve VanDevenver replying to Satya on ASR
This talk of Dunlop valves got me to thinking of cycling terminology that's dying out. When I was young, you either rode "HP"s, or "singles". Now with the Internet corrupting our language, people call HPs "clinchers" and singles "tubulars".
This talk of Dunlop valves got me to thinking of cycling terminology that's dying out. When I was young, you either rode "HP"s, or "singles". Now with the Internet corrupting our language, people call HPs "clinchers" and singles "tubulars".
While I can understand the term "singles", I'm having a little difficulty working out where "HP" comes from... I mean, there were no "LP"s (except what ya put on a record player). I know HP stands for "High Pressure", but wonder as to the origins of the term, and why it was so widely used in Oz until recently...
Cheers,
Suzy
We used to call them 'tubs' or tubulars in the UK when I first started riding a road and track bike in the 60's, when I came over here & bought a bike I was firmly told here they are 'singles'. Used to take me ages to fix the punctures in them, I remember!
Glad they are going full circle to what I first knew them as. Now I just use HP tires as I'm no longer racing ..
Karen
-- "I'd far rather be happy than right any day." - Slartibartfast
This talk of Dunlop valves got me to thinking of cycling terminology that's dying out. When I was young, you either rode "HP"s, or "singles". Now with the Internet corrupting our language, people call HPs "clinchers" and singles "tubulars".
While I can understand the term "singles", I'm having a little difficulty working out where "HP" comes from... I mean, there were no "LP"s (except what ya put on a record player). I know HP stands for "High Pressure", but wonder as to the origins of the term, and why it was so widely used in Oz until recently...
Recently? What you know as HPs I've always known as clinchers or wire-ons since the mid-70s. Maybe it's a NSW/Vic thing. I think HP became de rigeur in the early 80s to different the skinny high pressure clinchers from the new MTB clinchers that were only rated to 40psi.
This talk of Dunlop valves got me to thinking of cycling terminology that's dying out. When I was young, you either rode "HP"s, or "singles". Now with the Internet corrupting our language, people call HPs "clinchers" and singles "tubulars".
While I can understand the term "singles", I'm having a little difficulty working out where "HP" comes from... I mean, there were no "LP"s (except what ya put on a record player). I know HP stands for "High Pressure", but wonder as to the origins of the term, and why it was so widely used in Oz until recently...
Cheers,
Suzy
My understanding is that high pressure was a tem used when we got the lipped clincher rims that we currently have. There was an older style with no lip and no hook on the tyre bead, these had lower inflation pressures, when the hooked rim/tyre combo came into being, these new tyres had the remonstrations only to use on hooked rims.
