That’s bullshit. Life’s too short to ride turds.
Get some Challenge Strada tires.
In testing those are even worse than the Enves. To be fair the Enves and Challenges are all good tires and worse is relative to the fastest tire available, which is what I was riding.
at 1,500 miles my rear runny arse SBH began leaking air and sealant like crazy so I put a tube in
the first ride with them mounted tubeless was a revelation but the overall runny arse tubeless experience gets a 3/10 rating from me
Brand new Barlow decided to Yeet itself off this rim around 50psi while chilling. Fuckka hookless rim with this nonsense.
*wheels were brought in with tires mounted and we were not aware it was hookless at the time.
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It looks like somebody needs to…
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Call a Herse.
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I love that the sidewalls still say max pressure 75psi too. Someone is going to die at some point.
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He made a safety post about hookless rims a couple years ago but deleted it when everything got ported over under the new brand. I guess the go ahead from Enve and Zipp was good enough to limit his liability.
https://heine91.rssing.com/chan-30191023/article423.html#c30191023a423
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Post is still up there.
Define “top-quality hookless rims”.
Love this from Specialized on the topic
“Tire design in tubeless tires plays a more important role than in tube-type clinchers. This amplifies the importance of bead hooks. We find greater variance between tubeless tires than between different tube-type clinchers.
“In summary, straight wall rims show lower burst pressure compared to hooked rims. Some tubeless tires decrease the burst pressure further by way of their bead material or bead layout.
“We do not recommend using any tires with a max pressure above 5.5bar (80psi) on straight wall rims.”
between this, the glue-it-yourself stem, and the whole shift-by-reaching-into-drivetrain nonsense, I have to assume that RH is not going to be in business much longer.
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intentionally or not, he is really going for broke
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million dollar idea
buy any reen horse product
use it as directed by the seller
hurt yourself
sue
win
use the profits to buy affinity and fire everyone who works there
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I just realised that vague as hell feeling Ive been getting when descending on the seal on my 26er fully at speed is probably the damn Schwable tires. I kept thinking it was a worn bearing, or loose QR or worn pivot bearing. I guess they ar pretty old by now.
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It’s funny once I switched my pink bike to the 32 mm Enves I unconsciously started selecting my old black bike with 25/28 Specialized Turbo cottons for my rides.
I hate to take off new tires so I am still going to suffer with them this winter.
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Have some miles on the Vittoria Terreno Dry. Ridden them in gravel, sand, clay, and grass, both wet, and at somewhat dry. Subjectively, I still like 'em a lot and they are more confidence inspiring than the g-ones. They didn’t fare that well in soaking wet clay, but what does, really?
Did a 30 mile loop today half gravel and half pavement. They’re reasonably fast, faster than the G-one speed, but one can definitely feel the drag at >20mph. Probably not an ideal “race” tire, but otherwise great.
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I was diagnosing a leaky tire this afternoon and noticed that the Strada Bianca has reduced the pressure rating from 45-75 down to 30-50. I wonder if this is a response to similar blow-offs in the key of R.Hearse.
Also, I noticed a longitudinal gouge or wear mark at about 10 o’clock (when looking in direction of motion) along ~1/3 the circumference of the tire. Thought perhaps it was a fender wear mark but the tires and rims are straight as an arrow so can’t quite make sense of this.
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Definitely feels like either a shift to “optimal pressure” or possibly taking hookless rims into account for blow-off tests. I remember reading once that max psi ratings were often calculated as a percentage of blow off pressure on a control “rim”.
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I made another observation on my schwable tires over the weekend. All (two) of my bikes with schwable tires have the valves pointing at 2 0clock instead of twelve, this is over 2 bikes. I guess they just flog out after a while. These are tubed wheels.
fifty percent was what i used to hear. but yeah very much with tubes and hooked rims. i think there’s some seat of the pants experimentation happening with tubeless and hookless
The suggestions I got from Weareone (pictured above) on their “gravel rim” were
- 38mm minimum (OK)
- Maxxis (seems reasonable)
- Panaracer (LOL NO)
When I asked DT about their hookless carbon gravel rims they said
- Consult the chart on page X of the manual for recommended tire widths for each rim (reasonable)
- Any brand of tire is fine. LOL YOLO (WAT?)
Wild West.
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