Solid tires - they are back...

On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 11:53:22 AM UTC-6, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 6:59:08 AM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 12/3/2014 5:35 AM, somebody wrote:
They reappear every 10-15 years...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/activ...punctures.html


Based on the website, Tannus is very enthusiastic about showing off the
bright color choices for the tires. But it doesn't seem to think
rolling resistance data is worth mentioning. That makes me skeptical.

They do say that the same energy necessary to get a pneumatic tire (what tire, we don't know) up to 30kph would get the Tannus up to 29kph. There is no discussion of ride quality, cornering, wet grip -- or anything other than "it doesn't flat, and it is not too much of a pig."

The telling point is that it took the author 1 hour and lots of swearing to get the tire on the rim. I probably spend less than that fixing flats over the life of a single tire. My commuter also gets different tires over the course of a year to cope with different situations -- I'm on the big rubber now, but I see no reason to ride a piggy tire during the summer. I would hate to wrestled with the solid tires when the weather turns bad and I want something fatter, skinnier or with studs.

-- Jay Beattie.

I got two sets.
Wide, hard MTB tires on a MTB bicycle with xtracycle and a Golden Eagle 35cc motor.
Aired tires it got to 27 mph, 24 miles on a tank.
Tannus tires it goes to 26 mph, haven't run it to empty.

20 in tires on a Mariner 7 with Prodeco electric motor.
Aired tires it got up to 20 mph limit, didn't run battery to empty.
Tannus tires it gets up to 15 mph, lasts 12 miles on rail to trails.