I’ve gone through a couple sets of these Contis and imo they rule for the winter roads here. Good enough in car-packed snow, good enough on patchy ice, don’t feel punishingly slow on the warmer days. Basically perfect for city riding where they plow and salt.
But they’re getting kind of hard to find in the 700x40 sizeway and I’m due to replace again
Wait, I can get winter traction without studs? Do they make 650b version!?
Edit: no. At this rate, however, there will be no snow or ice in Minnesota for a while. 30 today!
They do, or did. They still list the 27.5” on their site but not in stock at Universal Cycles right now and not showing up on bike24 in that size either. Both had some a few months ago.
maybe next year. tubeless studded tires are insanely expensive, so I went with shitbox tubed gravdals. I might not install them though.
as someone who has never used studded tires-
atmo it’s already gonna suck a lot. do what’s easy, it will still be riding a bike instead of driving.
i do wonder how much of a difference tubeless makes. this would be fun to suggest to BRR if they haven’t done it yet. at a cursory glance it might be novel data
the 26" gravdals I’ve used are boat anchors. suck all of the joy of riding completely. especially in the shoulder season when you’re riding on bare pavement most of the time.
last year I kept the surly ETs on and I enjoyed the winter riding much more – but maybe I was lucky to never bite it except for some 33 and rain days late in the season.
this year I have lighter 38mm 650b gravdals. maybe those will ride nicer.
Goddamn man, I know there’s no ethical consumption but I was hoping not literally everything up to and including bicycle spare parts would be a human rights violation.
I want to see how SRAM, microshift, sensah, etc. stack up. I’m sure the results will be surprising, although china is likely a huge black box with transparency. I think Campy is largely produced in the EU so they would be fine, taiwan should be OK too, unless they use factories abroad.
Edit: the article is actually a bit sad but the headline paired with his Eminem look alike mug shot cut me up.
Judging by the number of basket bikes on the Boise Bicycle Project’s dream bike list, Tarck is going to be flush with new users in about 10 years.
this sub is in desperate need of an invigoration of youth.
about to sue all of these little shits.
Heeeeyyyyoh
Migrant workers are used in Taiwan, not sure how extensive it is but there were dorms at one factory I visited.
nobody wants to talk about it except for campagnolo, but even they don’t have much to say besides their employing skilled workers who are “fairly compensated.” not sure we’ll get much out there besides someone going on the factories to investigate
So some guy on paceline was in a coma after crashing and upon waking up told his family to tell the forum he crashed.
Or so I’ve been told.
Now paceline is down.
Coincidence? I think not!
I didn’t realise the rando frame colour was the same as the ciggie pack colour! The metallic is transformative.
Edit: future tarckstar #2!
" The Australian Department of Health initially referred to the colour as “olive green”, but the name was changed after concerns were expressed by the Australian Olive Association "
So good.
