Souplesse Casings and Bike Soup - The Tire Thread

[cheese]

what else is a must own from lee valley?

[asterisk]

Oh dude, slippery slope. As someone who has dropped an embarrassing amount of bongs there, their Veritas brand woodworking tools are all standouts. If you have any interest in hand tool woodworking, their entire range is solid. Garden tools are all way better than home center stuff in the US. They also have a bunch of trinket-y stuff among the home goods but occasionally there’s useful stuff.

If you’re just looking to fill out a cart for free shipping, take a gander at one of the catalogs…you’ll find something: https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/catalogs

[Andrew_Andeson]

@Rusty_Piton

Wow! Today I learned how to read a vernier caliper!
I mean I knew how to read the mms but today I learned that the other lines let you accurately measure fractions of mms! That’s amazing!

It’s what i always love about the analog ones. Just like a silkscreen on some shitty pieces of plastic gives insane precision. Much more zen than any digital set.

[canti_lover]

@halbritt

…et and loved them until one day when she neglected to secure the skewer on her front wheel and arrived home to find one of her beloved speed blend tires missing.Recently, we were on a family ride and saw a bike nerd with a set on a fixie. She kept looking at him like she was going to mug him, or maybe ask him where he got his tires. I’m sure it was an old fixie.Anyway, anyone got any stashed away?

Wasn’t that a riv produced product? If they don’t have it I bet no one does.

Get some more runny arse and set the kid up with a coloring project?

[JUGE_FREDD]

yeah it was one of the good harebrained Rivendell ideas

they’ve been out of production for ten years

[halbritt]

@canti_lover

Wasn’t that a riv produced product?

History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHti9T1row0

I don’t think the wife realizes how truly bespoke and weird the tires are and that there aren’t any more out there.

[Face]

So when are we going to reproduce them in tarck colors with tarck bears on the sidewall?

[halbritt]

@Face

So when are we going to reproduce them in tarck colors with tarck bears on the sidewall?

I wouldn’t want to violate Grant’s “patent”.

[Face]

If there’s a “patent” we can find it.

[Master_Stabby]

We could probably convince grant to make more by offering to bankroll some of the costs of just commit to a certain order number.

[Face]

I’d take two if tubeless and 700x32-38ish.

[Master_Stabby]

Tubeless or panaracer tubeless?

[Face]

Oh yea, nevermind.

[Jacobell]

The soma supple vitesse is definitely the same casing as the ren hars tires which means panaracer can also make that for us. Was actually talking about making knockoff reen her tires the other day. Would happily pay towards a minimum from panaracer.

[Eddbread]

700 x 28 and 32s
650b x 42
Pls

[plutarck]

With faintly embossed tarckbear as the tread pattern.

[Emor_please]

I’d roll 650x40-something Tarck speedblends holy shit just writing that made me so happy

[Eddbread]

650b slicks omg imagine GP5000 in 650b42

[cheese]

i.e. the 5k

[Face]

Please full size adult bike tires, ie 700 x something reasonable.