Did not get hurt
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JP must have a change of sponsors, but this is the tire that my nerdiest buddy swears by. He’s about to do the Great Britain Divide. Not sure what JP is up to, don’t care.
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I have a set and love them.
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I think there are many different tire compounds too, I have the older ones which were bastards to get off and on my rims so I would never use them. I went to the Mezcals but I think the rolling resistance site shows the Contis are faster.
I had a raceking 2.2 on the back of my boregon pukeback bike
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Just had both my Challenge 650x48s shredded on some metal grate in a night ride through Hartford. What do we like for fast almost 100% paved 650 tires that ate maybe less fragile? (I’m not sure any tire would have survived this.)
Would love to see this metal grate
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Unfortunately I did not get a pic. It had the effect of hitting a spike strip.
Boken plus!
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Wow can we see the tire damage?
I also vouch for the Boken. It’s a good one.
I guess less shredded than I initially surmised. The double tubeless instant flatting threw me for a loop as I had not experienced that before.
Are these fixable? I have never used bacons, but I recently acquired some of those close out Muc off bar end baconators. Might work for the non label hole? @Crustradamus youre something of an expert at sketchy repairs of fragile tubeless tires, right? What do?
Throw it in the trash. We wanna see the grate!!
Challenge Tires, Always a Challenge ™️
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Goddammit
I’m also currently rubbing a pair of these lovely but apparently fragile round creatures.
After quite a bit of time of the hand made and vulcanized casings from Challenge, I am 100% convinced the handmade casing is quite a bit more durable. I’ve killed or plugged several vulcanized casing tires now and the handmade ones I have used have been ridden to being worn out. Just did another stupid 50-mile gravel race on the 40 HTLR Getaways and they were yet again flawless.
I was pretty iffy on the handmade stuff at first and there is still sometimes some weirdness with casing runout (and we did have some weird warranty things last year) but quite a few of us in the shop are on them now and everyone is reasonably stoked.
Also FWIW, I’ve been using the Vittoria sealant on my own HTLR tires to try it out and it seems to be great. Less weird seeping as the tires age compared to Orange Seal. Orang is still our in-house default sealant tho.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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I’m sorry I can’t see past “HTLR tires”
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Haha yeah. Pretty dumb. I’m too lazy to type out the whole thing.
adding the vowels?!
HITLER tires
Happy now?
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