Anyone have an opinion on a 700cx45 tire that would be closest to 42mm wide on a i18 rim?
Continental Terra Speed?
Vittoria Terrenos in a 45 would probably be right on the money. My 700x47s measure 46.5mm on i21 rims.
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Interesting outcome to this tire. I have a little floor cubby right in front of my fridge where my GF keeps shipping materials and other assorted junk. I cut a portion of this tire and put it in there, occasionally taking it out to cut off pieces for various DIY stuff. Went to get some rubber for something a couple days ago and found the tire badly cracked apparently from the refrigerator motor generating ozone in very close proximity.
I canât recall this happening to any other tire Iâve used. Perhaps very long ago. I store a lot of used tires, usually well, and they all look good. Iâm still riding a Schwalbe MTB tire that I bought in 2019 for example.
I even kept a more heavily used example of this tire in my van for many months subject to extreme temperature swings and it looks fine, I recently reinstalled that tire and it even still rides fine.
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Thatâs some House MD nonsense right there.
At least it wasnât Lupus.
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Itâs certainly made me turn a more critical eye to the recent complaints about RenĂ© Herse tire longevity.
I am now performing another trial with an old Mezcal. One section by the fridge, one section in the tire bin with everyone else. Iâll report back in several months.
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this is making me wonder what the best practices for storing tires are
i have a bunch that are just on a shelf in my basement. no refrigerator nearby. but should i be doing more, especially in dry ass colorado?
I vacuum bag them. no idea if it helps but oxygen is bad for things
I keep my tire stash in a black and yellow HDX bin in the basement. I havenât noticed any degradation of the tires stored in there, many for years.
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do you sous vide at 137 for 90 mins before use?
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I cut a hole in the drywall ceiling of my garage and threw my tire piles up there.
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Didnât an increase in oxygen in the atmosphere lead to the greatest mass extinction in Earthâs history? Because all life was set up for a higher CO2 atmosphere and then a bunch of plants started eating it all and farting out O2 and everything died. I think it was something like that.
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I wasnât born yet
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are you talking about the great oxygenation event or the P-Tr boundary event? or some other extinction?
I dunno bro. Just a thing I saw online one time.
Was I right though?
no.
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Stupid experts
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new fast fatter road tire option from Vittoria
https://www.biketiresdirect.com/product/vittoria-corsa-pro-control-tlr-road-tire
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I was excited until I looked at the rest of the Pro Control line and saw they were all pretty slow.
âComing Soonâ at BRR so I guess weâll see.
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Has anyone used this MucOff road/gravel soup? This one peaks my interest since Iâm allergic to latex so somewhat limited in choices.
I used it years ago, smells and looks like hair product but works just fine as a sealant
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