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Conbtinental has come out with a GP5000S and a GP5000TL
On 2019-02-20 09:07, Radey Shouman wrote:
Joerg writes: On trails the tire torture is of more natural causes, decomposed granite and sharp rocks, some embedded and some rolling. Then both on roads and trails there are these which go into runnig surfaces and sometimes side walls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%2...idum_seeds.jpg A bike shop owner told me that they aren't native but came in from places like Arizona just a few years ago. Anyhow, we've got to deal with all that. Thanks for that. The photo includes both acanthospermum hispidium and tribulus terrestis. I am familiar with the latter from my formative years in New Mexico, but not, apparently, with the thing you call a goat head. I still have an irrational reluctance to ride through even very small sandy areas, because as a kid that almost invariably caused a flat. The nice effect is that after ruggedizing my tube and tire setup I can ride through those areas without a worry in the ski. I remember yelling at an oncoming rider "Stop!" but he was still to far in the distance. By the time I got to him his front tire was already hissing. These are pretty much the only occasions where my on-board patch kit gets used. On one stretch of the Western section of the El Dorado Trail I often deliberately ride slightly left or right of the very narrow singletrack to flatten thorny plants for other riders. Like a tank. The main reason being that the thorns still on those weeds cause bloody shins even if people ride center. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On 2019-02-20 09:56, Duane wrote:
On 20/02/2019 10:50 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-18 08:39, Duane wrote: On 18/02/2019 10:16 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-18 05:35, Duane wrote: [...] Well we do have one guy that buys chinese knock off tires online. He's had so many split tires that we are contemplating a GoFundMe page for him so we don't have to keep stopping to put boots in his tires... Very different here. The rolling surface does wear down within 2000mi which is slighlty lower than the 2500mi I could milk out of a Gatorskin. However, I get 2000mi out of every tire while I only got around 1000mi out of the Gatorskins where the sidewalls blew. Are you talking about single track now or are you saying your roads wear tires down more than say Quebec roads? Hard to keep track. And do the Gatorskin tires just blow sidewalls or are you running into ruts or something? Again, my statement goes for _both_ road and offroad. I do not know Quebec roads but ours in California have a lot of debris and are often in very poor condition. Pieces of asphalt broken out and laying on top and such. The result of inept government. https://www.google.ca/search?q=quebe...CAAQCA#imgrc=_ Here it's partially the government, partially the +/-40 C temperature swings and partially the mob supplying the asphalt. We seem to get by without your tire issues for the most part. I'm getting ~5000km from my Conti 4000s and rarely get flats. That always puzzled me because German riders told me the same thing, one of whom also rides on GP4000. Tough they do not live in areas as hilly as our foothills and maybe that is what wears tires more. They also weigh less than I do and they do not use their bikes for utility rides, meaning loaded. When I buy a bike the very first thing I do is to equip it with a sturdy rack. Sturdy as in capable of hauling 50lbs if needed. I got 2500mi or 4000km on one of the Gatorskins until it showed some bare thread. The other three failed prematurely in their side walls. Cheaper tires last only 1500-2000mi but their side walls do not fail. The latter is paramount to me. A disappointing cheap tire was the CST Conquistare 25mm which never lasted more than 1200mi. So I won't buy those anymore. I try to avoid potholes but I have hit one that caused my tube to split but I haven't cut a sidewall yet. This happens when you ride in a tight group and the guy in front of you moves to avoid the hole at the last second without warning. But you say you keep yards between you and any other riders so it's hard to understand your issues. When riding along a busy road with trucks rumbling by a few feet from you there isn't much choice when it comes to debris avoidance. The underlayment of many roads here contains coarse but sharp and pointy gravel because it's ubiquitous and thus cheap in this area. Once asphalt gets kicked out that stuff begins to show up all over the place. Other times the repair crews just throw a few shovels worth of gravel into a pothole and call it a day. So you'll be going through that. Whatever. Use what works for you. On trails the tire torture is of more natural causes, decomposed granite and sharp rocks, some embedded and some rolling. Then both on roads and trails there are these which go into runnig surfaces and sometimes side walls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%2...idum_seeds.jpg If you're talking about trail riding then why do you say road bike? I don't ride my Tarmac on single track unless I can't avoid it which is never. Again, what I said applies to _both_ kinds of bike. Also, many roads out here contain gravel and dirt sections. I do not wish to turn around just because I am on my road bike, so I press on. One of the many reasons I will never consider a carbon frame. I'd likely break it. Then there is the fact that goat's head thorns do not selectively land only on singletrack. They also land on road surfaces. Nasty stuff. Local cyclists call the plants they fall from "puncture vine". [..] -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:44:59 PM UTC-8, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-02-20 10:21, wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 9:56:55 AM UTC-8, duane wrote: On 20/02/2019 10:50 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-18 08:39, Duane wrote: On 18/02/2019 10:16 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-18 05:35, Duane wrote: On 17/02/2019 10:57 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-11 15:32, wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 4:54:06 PM UTC-8, Duane wrote: wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 3:52:27 PM UTC+1, Duane wrote: wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 7:56:22 PM UTC+1, Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-09 09:52, wrote: I learned pretty soon that paying more than $20 for a road bike tire is a waste of money. In fact, they can be worse than expensive tires. Similar for MTB tires. That depends on your riding conditions and requirements. I ride on good roads on my road bikes and get 4500 km out of a Continental 4000S(2) rear tire and expect the same from the 5000 so price is not that important. Lou I get about the same mileage and very few flats. I think I’ve had one flat in the last 10,000km and that was a tube giving out when I hit a pothole hard. I ride on roads but I can’t say they’re always good roads. Maybe Joerg is riding his road bike on single track carrying 4 gallons of water or something... 1-1/2 gallons max, on hot summer days. This is required on some rides unless you carry chlorine tablets, can stomach that taste _and_ suppress any thoughts about what you've seen in the river during kayaking further upstream. So you're riding a road bike on single track carrying 1-1/2 gallons of water. Maybe you have the wrong bike for that. No, I use a 29" FS MTB for that. What I am saying is that the problem with tires is basically the same whether road bike or MTB. Expensive tires are designed towards light weight and performance. Then, their sidewalls fail. My point is that you seem to have different results from anyone I know with respect to tires. I don't know anyone doing any serious mileage on a road bike that thinks cheaper tires are better. I have met lots of road bike riders who have realized that expensive tires just aren't worth it unless you plan to participate in the Amgen Tour, every millisecond counts and a team car is there at your beck and call. Saying that the additional cost is not worth the return for your specific use case is different than saying that cheaper tires are better than expensive tires. They _are_ better. To be "better" isn't necessarily something that has a better cost/performance ratio but somthing that doesn't go KAPOOF during ride. I didn't have flats in years, neither on the MTB nor the road bike. Mission accomplished, I'd say, and it was accomplished by switching to Asian tires. As I said this is different for competitive riders who get a new bike from the team car the second a tire is flat. I do not have a team car, do not belong to that group and never will. Well we do have one guy that buys chinese knock off tires online. He's had so many split tires that we are contemplating a GoFundMe page for him so we don't have to keep stopping to put boots in his tires... Very different here. The rolling surface does wear down within 2000mi which is slighlty lower than the 2500mi I could milk out of a Gatorskin. However, I get 2000mi out of every tire while I only got around 1000mi out of the Gatorskins where the sidewalls blew. Are you talking about single track now or are you saying your roads wear tires down more than say Quebec roads? Hard to keep track. And do the Gatorskin tires just blow sidewalls or are you running into ruts or something? Again, my statement goes for _both_ road and offroad. I do not know Quebec roads but ours in California have a lot of debris and are often in very poor condition. Pieces of asphalt broken out and laying on top and such. The result of inept government. https://www.google.ca/search?q=quebe...CAAQCA#imgrc=_ Here it's partially the government, partially the +/-40 C temperature swings and partially the mob supplying the asphalt. We seem to get by without your tire issues for the most part. I'm getting ~5000km from my Conti 4000s and rarely get flats. I try to avoid potholes but I have hit one that caused my tube to split but I haven't cut a sidewall yet. This happens when you ride in a tight group and the guy in front of you moves to avoid the hole at the last second without warning. But you say you keep yards between you and any other riders so it's hard to understand your issues. Whatever. Use what works for you. On trails the tire torture is of more natural causes, decomposed granite and sharp rocks, some embedded and some rolling. Then both on roads and trails there are these which go into runnig surfaces and sometimes side walls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%2...idum_seeds.jpg If you're talking about trail riding then why do you say road bike? I don't ride my Tarmac on single track unless I can't avoid it which is never. A bike shop owner told me that they aren't native but came in from places like Arizona just a few years ago. Anyhow, we've got to deal with all that. All this assumes a tire liner so I can ride tires down to their "last mile". In goat's head thorn country wheer I live a liner is the prudent to do anyhow. Not sure what you mean by a tire liner. ... This: https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Tuffy-Bicy.../dp/B078FHD1ZH Worth every penny. ... It's not like they are optional as far as I know. They are optional. Some tires (supposedly) have something similar built in but my experience is that it fails as soon as the thorn or whatever hits far enough off-center. In addition I have thick thron-resistant tubes in the MTB and road bike tires. For the MTB the tire liner is then sleeved by a reguar good quality tube with the valve stem removed and slit. That combination seems to be indestructable. Which was my goal. My experience with cheap tires was absolutely horrible. They flatted if you look sideways at them and they wore out so rapidly that they cost more than using more expensive longer wearing tires. I'm sort of wondering just how far over the edge that Joerg is willing to take his tires before replacing them. With the tire liners in there I use them until thread shows, or at least close. The running surface becomes very flat in the center. ... I very rarely get more than 2,500 miles on the very longest wearing tires. I believe that he is approximately my size and yet he gets almost twice that distance if I understand him correctly. No, 2500mi max and only with expensive Gatorskins. Not using them anymore because of their flimsy side walls. Regular tires of the $12 class last me 1500-2000mi. Depends on brand and where I happen to ride. Mountainous terrain eats rubber on the uphill sections, literally. When I am following another guy and it's a quiet area I can hear the vvvt .. vvvt .. vvvt from his rear tire going uphill. Or we can go with Frank's previous claim that the graphene layer in my Vittoria tires doesn't protect anything because a layer only 8 molecules thick couldn't possibly protect anything. http://www.ukm.my/jsm/pdf_files/SM-P...n%20Chong..pdf This was a test in medical gloves that have to have several times the stretch of tires and yet even the very small pieces of graphene yielded an 11% increase in puncture resistance. The Vittoria tires have overlapping sheets of the material making it very puncture resistant. Now these most certainly aren't in the realm of Joerg's "cheap tires" but they are made in Thailand. Including shipping I paid $12/ea for the Vittoria Zafiros. That qualifies as low cost in my book. Jay wrote they don't last but I get well north of 1500mi out of them and I am not babying my road bike. It rolls over some nasty stuff. So if there was another sale and I needed to restock on tires I'd buy those again. I don't know how long they last, but my Zaffiros have been flat-prone, although not recently. I had a period of three or four flats a while back, but they've been flat-less lately. I have them in 32mm and run them as my fall-leaves-rain tire because they have a little tread pattern and aren't a pure slick. I have no idea how many miles I have on them because I have zero instrumentation on my commuter -- or any bike. Responding to this posts reminds me that I should look at my rear tire and see if it is worn out. Another thing about these tires is that they have a pretty high recommended inflation pressure for a 32mm. IIRC around 90 PSI, which makes the ride like rocks, but if they are under inflated, they ride like slugs. A 10-15 psi difference really affects the perceived "speed" of the tire. They also have just so-so wet grip which is sub-so-so at max inflation pressure. With all that said, they're not a bad tire for the price, and so far, more durable than a Pasela which, IMO, is a very similar tread design. I'm not going to spend a ton of money on a commuter tire. Riding a commuter with sluggish tires all week just makes the fast bike(s) feel that much faster, although I have to slaughter myself keeping up with the kid when we commute together. The good part about performance tire is that they have softer compounds and typically better wet grip. You get the super-hard, long-wearing tread compounds, and they're slippery on wet pavement. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On 2019-02-20 15:30, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:44:59 PM UTC-8, Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-20 10:21, wrote: [...] Or we can go with Frank's previous claim that the graphene layer in my Vittoria tires doesn't protect anything because a layer only 8 molecules thick couldn't possibly protect anything. http://www.ukm.my/jsm/pdf_files/SM-P...in%20Chong.pdf This was a test in medical gloves that have to have several times the stretch of tires and yet even the very small pieces of graphene yielded an 11% increase in puncture resistance. The Vittoria tires have overlapping sheets of the material making it very puncture resistant. Now these most certainly aren't in the realm of Joerg's "cheap tires" but they are made in Thailand. Including shipping I paid $12/ea for the Vittoria Zafiros. That qualifies as low cost in my book. Jay wrote they don't last but I get well north of 1500mi out of them and I am not babying my road bike. It rolls over some nasty stuff. So if there was another sale and I needed to restock on tires I'd buy those again. I don't know how long they last, but my Zaffiros have been flat-prone, although not recently. I had a period of three or four flats a while back, but they've been flat-less lately. They don't look very sturdy blow the running surface but with tire liners in there it doesn't matter to me. I have them in 32mm and run them as my fall-leaves-rain tire because they have a little tread pattern and aren't a pure slick. I have no idea how many miles I have on them because I have zero instrumentation on my commuter -- or any bike. Responding to this posts reminds me that I should look at my rear tire and see if it is worn out. Another thing about these tires is that they have a pretty high recommended inflation pressure for a 32mm. IIRC around 90 PSI, which makes the ride like rocks, but if they are under inflated, they ride like slugs. A 10-15 psi difference really affects the perceived "speed" of the tire. They also have just so-so wet grip which is sub-so-so at max inflation pressure. With all that said, they're not a bad tire for the price, and so far, more durable than a Pasela which, IMO, is a very similar tread design. I inflate my 25mm tires generally to round 110psi. Due to the very thick tubes the pressure doesn't drop much. Maybe to 80psi after a couple of months and then I inflate them again. I'm not going to spend a ton of money on a commuter tire. Riding a commuter with sluggish tires all week just makes the fast bike(s) feel that much faster, although I have to slaughter myself keeping up with the kid when we commute together. The good part about performance tire is that they have softer compounds and typically better wet grip. You get the super-hard, long-wearing tread compounds, and they're slippery on wet pavement. Underinflated all tires would ride sluggishly on my bikes because they have thick thorn-resistant tubes. So I have to keep them slightly below max allowed pressure. As for cornering I don't really care and never found much difference in stopping distance between tire compounds. I like harder compounds. The more miles out of a tire the better. It's not so much the cost but the hassle to switch it out. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:21:21 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 9:56:55 AM UTC-8, duane wrote: On 20/02/2019 10:50 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-18 08:39, Duane wrote: On 18/02/2019 10:16 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-18 05:35, Duane wrote: On 17/02/2019 10:57 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-11 15:32, wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 4:54:06 PM UTC-8, Duane wrote: wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 3:52:27 PM UTC+1, Duane wrote: wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 7:56:22 PM UTC+1, Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-09 09:52, wrote: I learned pretty soon that paying more than $20 for a road bike tire is a waste of money. In fact, they can be worse than expensive tires. Similar for MTB tires. That depends on your riding conditions and requirements. I ride on good roads on my road bikes and get 4500 km out of a Continental 4000S(2) rear tire and expect the same from the 5000 so price is not that important. Lou I get about the same mileage and very few flats.* I think I’ve had one flat in the last 10,000km and that was a tube giving out when I hit a pothole hard.* I ride on roads but I can’t say they’re always good roads. Maybe Joerg is riding his road bike on single track carrying 4 gallons of water or something... 1-1/2 gallons max, on hot summer days. This is required on some rides unless you carry chlorine tablets, can stomach that taste _and_ suppress any thoughts about what you've seen in the river during kayaking further upstream. So you're riding a road bike on single track carrying 1-1/2 gallons of water.* Maybe you have the wrong bike for that. No, I use a 29" FS MTB for that. What I am saying is that the problem with tires is basically the same whether road bike or MTB. Expensive tires are designed towards light weight and performance. Then, their sidewalls fail. My point is that you seem to have different results from anyone I know with respect to tires.* I don't know anyone doing any serious mileage on a road bike that thinks cheaper tires are better. I have met lots of road bike riders who have realized that expensive tires just aren't worth it unless you plan to participate in the Amgen Tour, every millisecond counts and a team car is there at your beck and call. Saying that the additional cost is not worth the return for your specific use case is different than saying that cheaper tires are better than expensive tires. They _are_ better. To be "better" isn't necessarily something that has a better cost/performance ratio but somthing that doesn't go KAPOOF during ride. I didn't have flats in years, neither on the MTB nor the road bike. Mission accomplished, I'd say, and it was accomplished by switching to Asian tires. As I said this is different for competitive riders who get a new bike from the team car the second a tire is flat. I do not have a team car, do not belong to that group and never will. Well we do have one guy that buys chinese knock off tires online.* He's had so many split tires that we are contemplating a GoFundMe page for him so we don't have to keep stopping to put boots in his tires... Very different here. The rolling surface does wear down within 2000mi which is slighlty lower than the 2500mi I could milk out of a Gatorskin. However, I get 2000mi out of every tire while I only got around 1000mi out of the Gatorskins where the sidewalls blew. Are you talking about single track now or are you saying your roads wear tires down more than say Quebec roads?* Hard to keep track.* And do the Gatorskin tires just blow sidewalls or are you running into ruts or something? Again, my statement goes for _both_ road and offroad. I do not know Quebec roads but ours in California have a lot of debris and are often in very poor condition. Pieces of asphalt broken out and laying on top and such. The result of inept government. https://www.google.ca/search?q=quebe...CAAQCA#imgrc=_ Here it's partially the government, partially the +/-40 C temperature swings and partially the mob supplying the asphalt. We seem to get by without your tire issues for the most part. I'm getting ~5000km from my Conti 4000s and rarely get flats. I try to avoid potholes but I have hit one that caused my tube to split but I haven't cut a sidewall yet. This happens when you ride in a tight group and the guy in front of you moves to avoid the hole at the last second without warning. But you say you keep yards between you and any other riders so it's hard to understand your issues. Whatever. Use what works for you. On trails the tire torture is of more natural causes, decomposed granite and sharp rocks, some embedded and some rolling. Then both on roads and trails there are these which go into runnig surfaces and sometimes side walls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%2...idum_seeds.jpg If you're talking about trail riding then why do you say road bike? I don't ride my Tarmac on single track unless I can't avoid it which is never. A bike shop owner told me that they aren't native but came in from places like Arizona just a few years ago. Anyhow, we've got to deal with all that. All this assumes a tire liner so I can ride tires down to their "last mile". In goat's head thorn country wheer I live a liner is the prudent to do anyhow. Not sure what you mean by a tire liner. ... This: https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Tuffy-Bicy.../dp/B078FHD1ZH Worth every penny. *... It's not like they are optional as far as I know. They are optional. Some tires (supposedly) have something similar built in but my experience is that it fails as soon as the thorn or whatever hits far enough off-center. In addition I have thick thron-resistant tubes in the MTB and road bike tires. For the MTB the tire liner is then sleeved by a reguar good quality tube with the valve stem removed and slit. That combination seems to be indestructable. Which was my goal. My experience with cheap tires was absolutely horrible. They flatted if you look sideways at them and they wore out so rapidly that they cost more than using more expensive longer wearing tires. I'm sort of wondering just how far over the edge that Joerg is willing to take his tires before replacing them. I very rarely get more than 2,500 miles on the very longest wearing tires. I believe that he is approximately my size and yet he gets almost twice that distance if I understand him correctly. Or we can go with Frank's previous claim that the graphene layer in my Vittoria tires doesn't protect anything because a layer only 8 molecules thick couldn't possibly protect anything. http://www.ukm.my/jsm/pdf_files/SM-P...in%20Chong.pdf This was a test in medical gloves that have to have several times the stretch of tires and yet even the very small pieces of graphene yielded an 11% increase in puncture resistance. Actually, if you actually read the study it showed that a thickness of 0.0177" provided the greatest resistance. Please note that this is substantially thicker then the 8 molecules you mention above. And, of course, Frank denies that he ever said such a thing so is this yet another example of "The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!"? -- Cheers, John B. |
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On 2/20/2019 6:30 PM, jbeattie wrote:
Another thing about these tires is that they have a pretty high recommended inflation pressure for a 32mm. IIRC around 90 PSI, which makes the ride like rocks, but if they are under inflated, they ride like slugs. A 10-15 psi difference really affects the perceived "speed" of the tire. It might be interesting to try some simple coast-down tests. If you have any hills with pretty consistent slope but not too steep, you could run them at (say) 75 psi and coast down noting your time between two landmarks. Then ride back up, inflate to 90 and repeat the trial. If done on a day without wind, you'd probably get a realistic estimate of how rolling resistance varies with those two pressures. You say you don't use cyclometers. But those with cyclometers mounted might just use the speeds indicated to tell the difference. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 4:01:24 PM UTC-8, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-02-20 15:30, jbeattie wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:44:59 PM UTC-8, Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-20 10:21, wrote: [...] Or we can go with Frank's previous claim that the graphene layer in my Vittoria tires doesn't protect anything because a layer only 8 molecules thick couldn't possibly protect anything. http://www.ukm.my/jsm/pdf_files/SM-P...in%20Chong.pdf This was a test in medical gloves that have to have several times the stretch of tires and yet even the very small pieces of graphene yielded an 11% increase in puncture resistance. The Vittoria tires have overlapping sheets of the material making it very puncture resistant. Now these most certainly aren't in the realm of Joerg's "cheap tires" but they are made in Thailand. Including shipping I paid $12/ea for the Vittoria Zafiros. That qualifies as low cost in my book. Jay wrote they don't last but I get well north of 1500mi out of them and I am not babying my road bike. It rolls over some nasty stuff. So if there was another sale and I needed to restock on tires I'd buy those again. I don't know how long they last, but my Zaffiros have been flat-prone, although not recently. I had a period of three or four flats a while back, but they've been flat-less lately. They don't look very sturdy blow the running surface but with tire liners in there it doesn't matter to me. I have them in 32mm and run them as my fall-leaves-rain tire because they have a little tread pattern and aren't a pure slick. I have no idea how many miles I have on them because I have zero instrumentation on my commuter -- or any bike. Responding to this posts reminds me that I should look at my rear tire and see if it is worn out. Another thing about these tires is that they have a pretty high recommended inflation pressure for a 32mm. IIRC around 90 PSI, which makes the ride like rocks, but if they are under inflated, they ride like slugs. A 10-15 psi difference really affects the perceived "speed" of the tire. They also have just so-so wet grip which is sub-so-so at max inflation pressure. With all that said, they're not a bad tire for the price, and so far, more durable than a Pasela which, IMO, is a very similar tread design. I inflate my 25mm tires generally to round 110psi. Due to the very thick tubes the pressure doesn't drop much. Maybe to 80psi after a couple of months and then I inflate them again. I'm not going to spend a ton of money on a commuter tire. Riding a commuter with sluggish tires all week just makes the fast bike(s) feel that much faster, although I have to slaughter myself keeping up with the kid when we commute together. The good part about performance tire is that they have softer compounds and typically better wet grip. You get the super-hard, long-wearing tread compounds, and they're slippery on wet pavement. Underinflated all tires would ride sluggishly on my bikes because they have thick thorn-resistant tubes. So I have to keep them slightly below max allowed pressure. As for cornering I don't really care and never found much difference in stopping distance between tire compounds. I like harder compounds. The more miles out of a tire the better. It's not so much the cost but the hassle to switch it out. Waaah. I got a flat coming home from work tonight -- a slow leak, so I just trudged home up the goat roads. I pumped up the tire this morning and suspect that I just drove a glass shard into the tube. I'll check it in the morning. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On 2019-02-20 20:56, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 4:01:24 PM UTC-8, Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-20 15:30, jbeattie wrote: [...] I'm not going to spend a ton of money on a commuter tire. Riding a commuter with sluggish tires all week just makes the fast bike(s) feel that much faster, although I have to slaughter myself keeping up with the kid when we commute together. The good part about performance tire is that they have softer compounds and typically better wet grip. You get the super-hard, long-wearing tread compounds, and they're slippery on wet pavement. Underinflated all tires would ride sluggishly on my bikes because they have thick thorn-resistant tubes. So I have to keep them slightly below max allowed pressure. As for cornering I don't really care and never found much difference in stopping distance between tire compounds. I like harder compounds. The more miles out of a tire the better. It's not so much the cost but the hassle to switch it out. Waaah. I got a flat coming home from work tonight -- a slow leak, so I just trudged home up the goat roads. I pumped up the tire this morning and suspect that I just drove a glass shard into the tube. I'll check it in the morning. Like I keep telling my riding buddies who are always the ones getting flats on the same routes where I don't: Tire liner plus thorn-resistant tubes, that fixes it for good. This has other benefits. A couple of weeks ago a high-speed bike path was flooded so we grudgingly had to use county roads for a while. The usual, the bike lane shoulder had lots of sharp gravel, glass shards, smashed beer bottles, shattered chunks of tiles, et cetera. The other rider went "Eeuw!" and tried to carefully dodge all this without weaving too much into traffic. I just put my bike in 10th and barreled through. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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Conbtinental has come out with a GP5000S and a GP5000TL
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:44:59 PM UTC-8, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-02-20 10:21, wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 9:56:55 AM UTC-8, duane wrote: On 20/02/2019 10:50 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-18 08:39, Duane wrote: On 18/02/2019 10:16 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-18 05:35, Duane wrote: On 17/02/2019 10:57 a.m., Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-11 15:32, wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 4:54:06 PM UTC-8, Duane wrote: wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 3:52:27 PM UTC+1, Duane wrote: wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 7:56:22 PM UTC+1, Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-09 09:52, wrote: I learned pretty soon that paying more than $20 for a road bike tire is a waste of money. In fact, they can be worse than expensive tires. Similar for MTB tires. That depends on your riding conditions and requirements. I ride on good roads on my road bikes and get 4500 km out of a Continental 4000S(2) rear tire and expect the same from the 5000 so price is not that important. Lou I get about the same mileage and very few flats. I think I’ve had one flat in the last 10,000km and that was a tube giving out when I hit a pothole hard. I ride on roads but I can’t say they’re always good roads. Maybe Joerg is riding his road bike on single track carrying 4 gallons of water or something... 1-1/2 gallons max, on hot summer days. This is required on some rides unless you carry chlorine tablets, can stomach that taste _and_ suppress any thoughts about what you've seen in the river during kayaking further upstream. So you're riding a road bike on single track carrying 1-1/2 gallons of water. Maybe you have the wrong bike for that. No, I use a 29" FS MTB for that. What I am saying is that the problem with tires is basically the same whether road bike or MTB. Expensive tires are designed towards light weight and performance. Then, their sidewalls fail. My point is that you seem to have different results from anyone I know with respect to tires. I don't know anyone doing any serious mileage on a road bike that thinks cheaper tires are better. I have met lots of road bike riders who have realized that expensive tires just aren't worth it unless you plan to participate in the Amgen Tour, every millisecond counts and a team car is there at your beck and call. Saying that the additional cost is not worth the return for your specific use case is different than saying that cheaper tires are better than expensive tires. They _are_ better. To be "better" isn't necessarily something that has a better cost/performance ratio but somthing that doesn't go KAPOOF during ride. I didn't have flats in years, neither on the MTB nor the road bike. Mission accomplished, I'd say, and it was accomplished by switching to Asian tires. As I said this is different for competitive riders who get a new bike from the team car the second a tire is flat. I do not have a team car, do not belong to that group and never will. Well we do have one guy that buys chinese knock off tires online. He's had so many split tires that we are contemplating a GoFundMe page for him so we don't have to keep stopping to put boots in his tires... Very different here. The rolling surface does wear down within 2000mi which is slighlty lower than the 2500mi I could milk out of a Gatorskin. However, I get 2000mi out of every tire while I only got around 1000mi out of the Gatorskins where the sidewalls blew. Are you talking about single track now or are you saying your roads wear tires down more than say Quebec roads? Hard to keep track. And do the Gatorskin tires just blow sidewalls or are you running into ruts or something? Again, my statement goes for _both_ road and offroad. I do not know Quebec roads but ours in California have a lot of debris and are often in very poor condition. Pieces of asphalt broken out and laying on top and such. The result of inept government. https://www.google.ca/search?q=quebe...CAAQCA#imgrc=_ Here it's partially the government, partially the +/-40 C temperature swings and partially the mob supplying the asphalt. We seem to get by without your tire issues for the most part. I'm getting ~5000km from my Conti 4000s and rarely get flats. I try to avoid potholes but I have hit one that caused my tube to split but I haven't cut a sidewall yet. This happens when you ride in a tight group and the guy in front of you moves to avoid the hole at the last second without warning. But you say you keep yards between you and any other riders so it's hard to understand your issues. Whatever. Use what works for you. On trails the tire torture is of more natural causes, decomposed granite and sharp rocks, some embedded and some rolling. Then both on roads and trails there are these which go into runnig surfaces and sometimes side walls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%2...idum_seeds.jpg If you're talking about trail riding then why do you say road bike? I don't ride my Tarmac on single track unless I can't avoid it which is never. A bike shop owner told me that they aren't native but came in from places like Arizona just a few years ago. Anyhow, we've got to deal with all that. All this assumes a tire liner so I can ride tires down to their "last mile". In goat's head thorn country wheer I live a liner is the prudent to do anyhow. Not sure what you mean by a tire liner. ... This: https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Tuffy-Bicy.../dp/B078FHD1ZH Worth every penny. ... It's not like they are optional as far as I know. They are optional. Some tires (supposedly) have something similar built in but my experience is that it fails as soon as the thorn or whatever hits far enough off-center. In addition I have thick thron-resistant tubes in the MTB and road bike tires. For the MTB the tire liner is then sleeved by a reguar good quality tube with the valve stem removed and slit. That combination seems to be indestructable. Which was my goal. My experience with cheap tires was absolutely horrible. They flatted if you look sideways at them and they wore out so rapidly that they cost more than using more expensive longer wearing tires. I'm sort of wondering just how far over the edge that Joerg is willing to take his tires before replacing them. With the tire liners in there I use them until thread shows, or at least close. The running surface becomes very flat in the center. ... I very rarely get more than 2,500 miles on the very longest wearing tires. I believe that he is approximately my size and yet he gets almost twice that distance if I understand him correctly. No, 2500mi max and only with expensive Gatorskins. Not using them anymore because of their flimsy side walls. Regular tires of the $12 class last me 1500-2000mi. Depends on brand and where I happen to ride. Mountainous terrain eats rubber on the uphill sections, literally. When I am following another guy and it's a quiet area I can hear the vvvt .. vvvt .. vvvt from his rear tire going uphill. Or we can go with Frank's previous claim that the graphene layer in my Vittoria tires doesn't protect anything because a layer only 8 molecules thick couldn't possibly protect anything. http://www.ukm.my/jsm/pdf_files/SM-P...n%20Chong..pdf This was a test in medical gloves that have to have several times the stretch of tires and yet even the very small pieces of graphene yielded an 11% increase in puncture resistance. The Vittoria tires have overlapping sheets of the material making it very puncture resistant. Now these most certainly aren't in the realm of Joerg's "cheap tires" but they are made in Thailand. Including shipping I paid $12/ea for the Vittoria Zafiros. That qualifies as low cost in my book. Jay wrote they don't last but I get well north of 1500mi out of them and I am not babying my road bike. It rolls over some nasty stuff. So if there was another sale and I needed to restock on tires I'd buy those again. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ When I tried the Zafiros I started getting flats within 500 miles. That's why I was very hesitant to try the higher priced Vittorias. But the G+ tires seem really great so far. |
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