Searching for this brought me to this:
https://www.terrenetires.com/collections/honali/products/honali-700x40-light-folding
Which I think is the winner right now, gonna buy a few
20% off code at the top of the page stacks too
nicholas says they are nice tires
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I ran the Elwoods in the light casing and they were perfectly fine. Deffo worth $20.
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So like a reverse cush core?
Installed a pair of 29 x 2.4 Continental Magnotals today. Installation was easy on Hunt Trail Wide wheels and they seated with a floor pump at 25psi.
I bought the âsoftâ compound for the front and a âgripâ for the rear. Actual weights were Grip 797g and Soft 886g (published weights Grip 800g, Soft 840g). Both casings measured at 2.3" at 25psi.
I swear the âgripâ compound is softer than the âsoftâ when it shouldnât be, but the weights match up as far as which should be the heavier tire. I tried searching a bit for if Continental ever got their hot patches wrong but came up empty.
Hereâs a comparison with a 2.4 Nobby Nic. Iâm a little apprehensive about how this will do on the front.
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wow thatâs some dumbass nomenclature
soft is grip is soft!!
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âGripâ - balance of grip and speed
âSoftâ - maximum grip
Their marketing department needs to be sent to re-education camps
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well, ultra soft would be maximum grip.
then what is the ultra grip tire?
my tire line:
- fast
- fast and sticky
- sticky fast
- sticky sticky fast
- fast sticky fast
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me from Saint Louis offering ooey gooey butter tires
Key and Peele tire lineup
- DâStickashaw Ferguson
- <meow meow> noise
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First ride on the Magnotals exceeded my expectations. Initially the front felt a little slippy but I just didnât trust the tire to weight it like I should.
Rode on very dry mostly machine built trails, but a few natural ones with off camber roots and rocks. Tires were very consistent on all terrain and have way more grip than I expected.
Iâll be really interested to see how they do when itâs wet.
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wth now the bike industry is trying to make 30.5" a thing, and itâs 654mm BSD. 750D - which people actually made real rims and tires for, that you can buy today - is 660mm BSD! cursed cursed cursed cursed cursed
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do you think they realize that every time they do this, some percentage of the market says âmeh Iâll just wait until it settles downâ and doesnât buy a bike?
because I havenât bought a bike in 5 years
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The bike industry thinking about long-term consequences? Thatâs unpossible!
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I really hope that 654 is the intern guessing the bsd or asking an AI to finish the catalog page, since itâs exactly halfway between sizes.
or a dry joke referencing 700d being so close to 650b
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654 BSD means this is almost the perfect opposite (3m/m) of the 650b/700c relationship.
Any gravel bike, of which there are now quite a few, which fits 700cx55; will also fit potential future 654-40.
âItâs called Road Minusâ - Schwalbeâs Top Sales Guy
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Also damn Road Plus really is dead. They even discontinued the best turdly tire ever - the Horizon. I had a lot of slow miles on those but they were pretty cush and lasted forever
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750D (660mm) was specifically intended to be the exact same step size as between 650B (27.5") and 700C (29")
If 30.5" = 654mm is correct and not a guess/mistake like drwelby hopes, itâs exactly splitting the middle betwen the BSDs of 29" and 32" (which yes, is close to the size step between 27.5" and 29".)
i was just out today riding with a bud whoâs still enjoying a ~2016 Cannondale Slate, and he was complaining that Schwalbe discontinued his favorite 27.5x2.0 G-One Speed and there donât seem to be many other good options in that size.
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