Continental Ultra Sport tires

On Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 11:18:36 AM UTC-7, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 12:59:12 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 12:26:01 PM UTC-7, Theodore Heise wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:21:41 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:
On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 6:42:00 PM UTC-7, Theodore Heise wrote:

At any rate, I don't want tires that are sodamn hard to mount.
It's okay in the shop, but not while riding--when as often as not
there will be others waiting for me. So I'm going to order some
of a different kind. I have the Marathons that Jay mentioned on
my list, and the previous Continentals I've used with some success
seems to be ULTRARACE and GRANDSPORT RACE. So I'll look for these
as well as the GP 4000s.

Was this a synthetic cord? (folding tire) If so these will
stretch over time and will go on and off quite easily.

Yes, I believe so, but after some months in use they haven't
gotten noticeably easier to mount. Maybe it takes longer.

--
Ted Heise West Lafayette, IN, USA

It shouldn't take more than one installation and perhaps a week on the bike for them to stretch out. I think that you in some manner got a bad batch.

So, you're saying that everyone that gets a folding tire that doesn't stretch over time has got their tire from a bad batch? Inconceivable! I stated that I did not have my tire stretch over time and A. Muzi said he doesn't see folding tires stretching over time either.

Cheers

The stretching is minimal and anyone that uses a folding tire can notice by how difficult it is to mount the first time and after that. When ever you weave the thread it is normally not pulled tight enough to be completely compressed to its limit. This is one of the reasons that you don't use braded rope in many uses.