[CR]Fastack

(Example: Events:Cirque du Cyclisme)

From: "Tom Dalton" <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>
To: imandt@earthlink.net
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Fastack
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:40:09 -0800 (PST)

Cynical interpretation: 3M's lawyers told 3M's bean counters that the tubular tire market was not worth the exposure. A message was sent to bike shops far and wide that the product was not intended for use on tubulars.

Actual experience: The memo came to our shop. Not long after a customer came back with a Fastack-ed tire that rolled off the rim (somehow he was unhurt). The tire was glued by a guy who knew just how to do the job. I think something had changed in the product. It gained a different appearence around the time of the memo. People still use it, so maybe there was no substantial change and the failed bond was a fluke, or maybe 3M changed it back to the original formula. I've avoided it since the failure I saw. It is too brittle, not as plastic as Wolber, for example.

Tom Dalton

Bethlehem, PA

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