On 12/21/2017 9:05 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:12:21 -0600, AMuzi wrote:

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Good grief, can't any website manager figure out how not to generate 200
character URLs? WTF ever happened to web design standards?

Anyways...

Zach Overholt must be a newbie or assumes his readers have no knowledge
of bike history (and maybe he's right). There were 700C mountain bikes
sold by Bianch 20+ years ago, long before "29ers" were hip. And of
course 27.5 = 650B which has been around for 100 years or so.

Nearly 1.5 kg of tire per wheel (and tubeless at that). Sacre
avoirdupois, Batman! That mass is partially offset by wallet lightening
at $120-225 per tire. Shoot, my Compass tires suddenly seem like a
bargain. Maybe one can forego the formerly de rigeur boinger fork with
big marshmallows like these; that would be a decent tradeoff and would
further offset the increased mass.

Now, just because I have zero use for tires like this doesn't mean no
one does, I suppose. But yeek! The mass and the cost!


Well, whether you or I have need or desire is one thing. A
new 26x3.8 584 to replace a recently established 26x4 559 (a
format just barely viable for widespread stock of rims/
tires/ tubes) is quite another.

Seems utterly pointless to me. I view this inherently as a
retailer because I am one. Splitting a marginal product
line into two incompatible but functionally fungible formats
might pump dealer inventories for a while but the turn
doesn't make economic sense from my point of view.

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