I’ve used SCS and Osh and SCS is usually much cheaper. Osh had more material choice last time I ordered.
Yep, it was 451 wheels, not 406.Rim brake , canti. Available right around the same timeframe as the Mercier Nano, Origin8 Bully, and Cannondale Hooligan.
At least that’s what I recall, there were also some track-ended models being made but I paid much less attention to them.
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oh wow i forgot about the origin8 jawn. for some reason the hooligan never registered as “minivelo” to me, though i am not sure why.
one day i will get myself a mini velo
I thought the hooligan looked so cool till I tried to lift one
Is it April 1st?
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He just put his own sticker on the same panaracer goo he’s been pushing for years?
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Sorry, I’ve got a nut allergy
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Shoulda called it Rene’s nut sauce
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Jan’s Nut-milk
Like Stan has been doing since day 1?
He could have just left it at “we worked with our partners at Panaracer to develop a sealant formula that is optimized for Rene Herse tires, but no. It has to be steeped in bs.
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When I asked why it’s sold as "low allergen’ when its two main ingredients are very common allergens (latex and tree nuts)
The mean reason this sealant is low-allergen is that it’s all natural, without chemicals that often have unknown health effects. That’s actually important to us.
girl what?!
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They go right for the known health effects
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I bought his sealant once but it hardened in the bottle before I tried using it a few months after purchase.
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I don’t understand why they wouldn’t change the sticker to warn of the actual allergens if they care so much.
I guess it’s just classic boomer heel digging.
We did a thing so it must be the right thing. We actually care about people’s health, that’s why we put that sticker on there!
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I would think an island nation would have a healthy surplus of crustacean shells that could be ground up for sealant as a natural alternative to glitter.
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It’s much simpler and pettier than that
Jan is constitutionally incapable of Googling the shit he writes before publishing it, or basic fact checks of “this artisan told me”
At Rene Herse Cycles, we’ve been running some of our bikes tubeless for more than a decade. Back then, neither rims nor tires were tubeless-ready yet, so there was much improvisation. On rough terrain, the tires tended to burp, and there were other issues, too. It was all part of the learning process, and things improved quickly. We introduced our first tubeless-compatible tires in 2016.
Far more than a decade late
UST public debut by Mavic, Michelin, and Hutchinson was in 1999; and Stan’s prototypes were already being used in World Cup races
Stan’s swept the podium at the 2004 Athens Olympics with their retail wheels and tires
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Did anyone other than me ever use a true tubeless system? I mean Mavic UST rims, tubeless tires (Panaracer Fire FR 26x2.4), and zero sealant. Set up totally tubeless, just like an automobile tire.
It worked OK but not perfect, would occasionally burp on real big hits(but would re-seat and not lose all the air, just some). TBH I should have tried something other than Panaracer tires, but ended up just adding sealant like everyone else once that started getting popular.
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Why don’t they do this anymore? Is it a combination of manufacturing costs and reliability?
Everything has to be airtight on it’s own with no sealant to help. That means special manufacturing for the rim and spoke bed so no spoke holes go through (or are otherwise airtight sealed). Tires need sidewalls that won’t leak air, making them heavier and less supple.
Then general problems with sealing up as the tire-to-rim interface needs to be real good.
Sealant makes everything easier to manufacture (and fewer patent games especially with trying to make airtight rims) and the tires can be lighter/supple as a bonus.
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Yeah, I ran Campy UST rims and those Hutchinson Atom tires for a bit. Worked great except the few times that it didn’t. I mean my favorite feature is no rim tape.
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That combo was among the hardest I’ve ever had the displeasure of mounting