just wanna send a heads up, i cant ride sooooo much without continental ride tour extras.. ultra triple thick tubes, never changed a tire in the field in my life! cant give enough thx!!
I’m sorry but the road feel, feedback, and rolling resistance really makes the ride feel dead on tires like those in my opinion. Like riding on a garden hose.
I can change a flat on 11 minutes while talking on the phone (headset). It would have been quicker if I wasn’t talking to someone at the time. I’d rather ride on something supple, and that rolls well and I have to change a tube a couple times a season.
This year I’m at 1800 miles and only 1 on the road repair. Last year, zero on the road repairs with over 2200 miles.
Life’s too short to ride fixed gear on shit tires. It takes away from the connected feeling that makes fixed gear so fun.
(I love in Chicagoland, ride Chicago a lot, also ride gravel, single track, crushed limestone, etc)
trackfiends on
I’m good bro
h0b03 on
I’d rather use a supple lightweight casing tire than anything else and deal with the flats as they come, but for a point a to b commuter they aren’t bad at all
Keroshii on
I use reasonably lightweight/low puncture protective tires and I’ve had 3 flats in the last 10 years, 2 of which were riding 28c tires on singletrack. Never seen the appeal of tires like these or schwalbe marathons.
andythaguy on
Used them for my first metric century, sluggish on tarmac, but reliable on anything else. For 40-80 km stints on a gravel and mud they are great, city riding is more of an exercise with them.
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I’m sorry but the road feel, feedback, and rolling resistance really makes the ride feel dead on tires like those in my opinion. Like riding on a garden hose.
I can change a flat on 11 minutes while talking on the phone (headset). It would have been quicker if I wasn’t talking to someone at the time. I’d rather ride on something supple, and that rolls well and I have to change a tube a couple times a season.
This year I’m at 1800 miles and only 1 on the road repair. Last year, zero on the road repairs with over 2200 miles.
Life’s too short to ride fixed gear on shit tires. It takes away from the connected feeling that makes fixed gear so fun.
(I love in Chicagoland, ride Chicago a lot, also ride gravel, single track, crushed limestone, etc)
I’m good bro
I’d rather use a supple lightweight casing tire than anything else and deal with the flats as they come, but for a point a to b commuter they aren’t bad at all
I use reasonably lightweight/low puncture protective tires and I’ve had 3 flats in the last 10 years, 2 of which were riding 28c tires on singletrack. Never seen the appeal of tires like these or schwalbe marathons.
Used them for my first metric century, sluggish on tarmac, but reliable on anything else. For 40-80 km stints on a gravel and mud they are great, city riding is more of an exercise with them.