Lidl-Trek will be using an inflatable Odyssey Optis tyre liner system at Paris-Roubaix to boost protection and to enable the team’s riders to keep riding a little bit further in the event of a puncture.
Paris-Roubaix always causes flats and even destroys wheels entirely. We have seen teams use foam tyre inserts and even tubular glue to help provide extra insurance to the tubeless setups that are now used, to ensure the tyres stay on the rim in the event of an untimely puncture.
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Whilst we haven’t seen a WorldTour road squad use this tech before, we saw a hacked equivalent being used by gravel star Keegan Swenson last year at Unbound Gravel, but rather than this solution, he simply used a flat inner tube inside a tubeless tyre to allow fast reinflation in the event of a catastrophic puncture, and he drilled a second hole in his rims to accommodate it.
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