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Continental Ultra 3000 any good?
Performance has these on sale for $9.96 for Team P members. I'm looking for
a 700x25 tire for commuting and training (not a racer just putting in miles). They're wire bead but I'm not a lightweight so the extra grams are no biggie. Are these a good tire? Mike |
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Continental Ultra 3000 any good?
"Gooserider" wrote in message
om... Performance has these on sale for $9.96 for Team P members. I'm looking for a 700x25 tire for commuting and training (not a racer just putting in miles). They're wire bead but I'm not a lightweight so the extra grams are no biggie. Are these a good tire? If you can get these for $10 get a half dozen. They are great tires. |
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"Gooserider" wrote in message . com...
Performance has these on sale for $9.96 for Team P members. I'm looking for a 700x25 tire for commuting and training (not a racer just putting in miles). They're wire bead but I'm not a lightweight so the extra grams are no biggie. Are these a good tire? My experience with Continental tires has been so bad that I would not use them again if they were being given away. YMMV Dick Durbin |
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Continental Ultra 3000 any good?
My experience with Continental tires has been so bad that I would not
use them again if they were being given away. YMMV. My experience with TT2Ks has been very positive, no failures in thousands of miles of use. I have no knowledge of Ultra 3000s. -- _______________________ALL AMIGA IN MY MIND_______________________ ------------------"Buddy Holly, the Texas Elvis"------------------ in.edu__________ |
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"Dick Durbin" wrote in message
om... "Gooserider" wrote in message . com... Performance has these on sale for $9.96 for Team P members. I'm looking for a 700x25 tire for commuting and training (not a racer just putting in miles). They're wire bead but I'm not a lightweight so the extra grams are no biggie. Are these a good tire? My experience with Continental tires has been so bad that I would not use them again if they were being given away. YMMV Continental GP's, the original version, were racing tires and the sidewalls weren't protected with any coating. They would easily get slashes and fail on dirty city streets. The Ultra was always a great tire though it didn't have as long a wear life as the GP if you didn't get a sidewall failure. The latest GP's and Ultra's are more alike now and both have sidewall protections. |
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Eric S. Sande wrote:
My experience with Continental tires has been so bad that I would not use them again if they were being given away. YMMV. My experience with TT2Ks has been very positive, no failures in thousands of miles of use. I have no knowledge of Ultra 3000s. I don't know about the Ultra 3000s either, but I concur that the TTs are a great tire. Used them exclusively for years on my commuter/tourer. I have also run Super Sports (??) and wasn't very impressed. They seemed to produce a lot of flats and looking at them closely one day, I noted a lot of small sand grain-like irregularities in the interior tire wall and thought perhaps they contributed to the flatting. I've since heard that Continental can be somewhat irregular in the quality of their tires, with "bad batches" sometimes being produced. Seems unlikely for a tire-maker with such long time experience, but who knows. I buy only Conti TTs for my tourer, and its the only Conti tire I buy. I've been experimenting with other brands on my other bikes. No real quality conclusions yet. SMH |
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On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 03:27:24 GMT, Tom Kunich wrote:
"Dick Durbin" wrote in message om... "Gooserider" wrote in message . com... Performance has these on sale for $9.96 for Team P members. I'm looking for a 700x25 tire for commuting and training (not a racer just putting in miles). They're wire bead but I'm not a lightweight so the extra grams are no biggie. Are these a good tire? My experience with Continental tires has been so bad that I would not use them again if they were being given away. YMMV Continental GP's, the original version, were racing tires and the sidewalls weren't protected with any coating. They would easily get slashes and fail on dirty city streets. The Ultra was always a great tire though it didn't have as long a wear life as the GP if you didn't get a sidewall failure. The latest GP's and Ultra's are more alike now and both have sidewall protections. I used to use the GP's 8 years ago and side wall cuts were my biggest problem. I tried the 3000's and they didn't wear as well as I'd like. Now I buy the Sport 1000's (for commuting and reqular club rides) and I find them to be inexpensive and they where well. Now I just need to figure out how to keep them from dry rotting (my bike tends to be in my car when I'm not riding on it). :-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ (Text only) http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge) http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II) |
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Gooserider wrote:
Performance has these on sale for $9.96 for Team P members. I'm looking for a 700x25 tire for commuting and training (not a racer just putting in miles). They're wire bead but I'm not a lightweight so the extra grams are no biggie. Are these a good tire? Mike I saw the same, and pan on getting a few sets. I currently use the Ultr 3000 on my road bike in a 700x23c, and have many miles on them with n problems at all - |
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