Souplesse Casings and Bike Soup - The Tire Thread

I like the spesh roubaix 30/32. It’s a very good tire.

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fantastic tire. no right to be that good at its pricepoint

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I have a pair of tubeless corsas on my bike and they are awesome.

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If I buy 33mm Strada Bianca TLRs and they don’t fit my bike will anyone buy them from me? GP5ks don’t seem to be available and are too expensive anyway. I need good not perfect.

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I already compromised with black spokes I’m gonna need tan sidewalls.

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i probably would

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Like this?

Consider it the faster, lighter version of the Strada Bianca

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Oh, like that. I can only find it in black.

Knew I should’ve bought a few extra. They were in stock everywhere about a month ago. Anyway:

https://www.bike24.com/p2583623.html

They have some in euroland.

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Well Strada Pro 30mm are back in stock at Universal so I pulled the trigger. Little bit of buyers regret not trying to fit 33mm but maybe next time

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Just mounted up some Maxis Ramblers in 27.5x1.5 on a wheelset I got for cheap (Fulcrum Racing 700 Disc Wheelset | Chain Reaction - $146 for ~1700g). First time ever that it went smoothly and held air–used the tesa tape bward1028 sent a few years back, and used tubes to really flatten the rim tape. I marred the stickers a bit with tire levers and ape technique, but they’ll see gravel so they’ll get beat regardless.

Why are some tires in this diameter labeled as 27.5 and others at 650B?

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It’s only 650b if it comes from a French tire maker, otherwise it’s just a sparkling mountain bike tire.

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I need enough tubeless tape to redo a wheelset, should I just buy the $11 roll of tesa 4298 from bezos?

i have a roll left from when i bought 10 that i can send you tomorrow or wednesday

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I actually found your old Great Tape Giveaway thread and thought you had long unloaded it all

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send me yur address

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Only 25 miles so far, but Pirelli P Zero tlr in 30mm feel really good.

replacing a Schwalbe Pro One and Continental GP5k combo, they feel faster and smoother, which is saying something.

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Challenge Stradas…where do they fall on the real vs marked size spread? Bigger/smaller than advertised?

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Just mounted some 30s on i19 rims. Measure exactly 30mm at max psi.

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Pretty accurate to size. 27mm were a touch larger as were 30mm on 28mm rims, which is pretty wide so that’s to be expected.