Souplesse Casings and Bike Soup - The Tire Thread

For the 1 mbar’ers (carts & graphs, etc.):

https://betweenthetape.com/tire-pressures/

My take away from this testing is that slower tire pressures offer the advantage of consistency. For the casual racer or weekend warrior, I think this should be an important consideration. Because unless you are Loic Bruni and can hit the perfect line, first time, every time, you often don’t have the luxury to hit the same section of track 30 times to find the perfect line. If you do, then great! Rock the higher tire pressures, as there seems to be an advantage in speed.

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Incredible share, thanks for posting this.

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What’s the current option for a cheap x narrow tire for a normie who is mostly just riding a couple miles to the bar every couple of weeks? One of my Biker Boyz buddies has a couple older Schwinns and he is thinking to spruce up instead of getting a cheaper new bike. I am pretty sure it runs 700c tires but probably only on the narrower side of things, he’s not a big guy so it’s probably okay. Conti Ultra Sports for $25-30 seem to be the thing but I’m wondering if there’s anything else in the same price range that might perform better or be more durable.

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Old Schwinn might not actually be 700c. They had their own standard for awhile that wasn’t quite compatible. 27.25" or something?

Good rule of thumb is if it’s schwinn marked rims you need weird sized tires

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It ended up being that one Schwinn was what I’ll call a “contemporary V-brake hybrid” so yeah 700c

The older one had 27 inch wheels. Or at least had 27 inch Conti Ultra Sports lol…

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i just wanted to check in and say yall were right
i absolutely hate these challenge tires (bianca strada in 700x30 sizeway)

they are the most supple, fastest, best feeling roadie tires i ever have ridden in my life, however, it’s not worth the constant pain and suffering of having to air them up every few days or suffer the wrath of dried out sealant. it’s just absurdity.

i think i will put them on my retrogrouch roadie bike, and install tubes in them, and buy something else for the nightmoves that doesn’t eat sealant.

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challenge tires? always a challenge!

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it’s a shame too because i really like the way they ride, just completely awesome all aroud

also i only have maybe 300 miles on them total, have put AT LEAST 8oz of sealant in each over the past 6 months, and the file tread is already gone.

Hand made or vulcanized? My long term thoughts is that the vulcanized ones are pretty awful. The handmade are where it’s at.

After trying a few different sealants I found the Vittoria stuff to work the best with the hand made casing.

I gotta be honest, sometimes it’s nice to just not deal with any tubeless BS.

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