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Need Advice on Airless Rear Tire for an Easy Tour
New member. Purchased an Easy Tour this July after test riding many recumbent combinations. Added a full Zipp faring last month and it really cuts the wind load down. But, need advice on this one. Looking at purchasing an Airless Manaco tire 700x28c for the rear. Anyone have an experience with this type of tire? BOB500 -- Bob500 |
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Bob500 wrote:
But, need advice on this one. Looking at purchasing an Airless Manaco tire 700x28c for the rear. Anyone have an experience with this type of tire? Short answer: Don't. Long answer: AASHTA URL: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_a.html#airless -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ World Domination? Just find a world that's into that kind of thing, then chain to the floor and walk up and down on it in high heels. (Mr. Sunshine) |
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Bob500 wrote:
But, need advice on this one. Looking at purchasing an Airless Manaco tire 700x28c for the rear. Anyone have an experience with this type of tire? Not directly, because every time I've read a first hand account of a solid/foam/etc. tyre it has very heavily implied that they're shocking and not to be touched even with a 15' barge pole... Good modern tyres with Kevlar bands are reasonably proof against most punctures, I'd go with one of those. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:13:10 +1100
Bob500 wrote: But, need advice on this one. Looking at purchasing an Airless Manaco tire 700x28c for the rear. Anyone have an experience with this type of tire? Don't bother. It'll increase your rolling resistance, increase your weight, and give you a rougher ride. |
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"Dave Larrington" wrote in message ...
Bob500 wrote: But, need advice on this one. Looking at purchasing an Airless Manaco tire 700x28c for the rear. Anyone have an experience with this type of tire? Short answer: Don't. Long answer: AASHTA URL: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_a.html#airless I have found Greentyre, NoMorFlats and NuTech to be heavy and mushy (too much rolling resistance). I have had no experience with Airless Manaco. I now am trying a Kevlar belted Primo Comet. Between the inside surface of the tire and the air retaining tube I have placed a thorn resistant tube that was sliced down the inside and the valve removed. I reason this to provide signficant belt and sidewall protection. Kevlar belted tires only protect the belt area, not the side wall where I have gotten most of my goathead flats. The liquid protection products such as Slime migrate toward the belt as the tire rotates leaving, I reason, the side wall with little protection. I believe SPECIALIZE makes a 700 tire with Kevlar that covers the side wall as well as the belt area. My next experiment is to try the product developed by www.notubes.com. I have read that Kevlar contributes in a signficant way to increasing rolling resistance. I ride a Dragonflyer(out of production)tadpole trike. |
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Bob500 wrote in message ...
New member. Purchased an Easy Tour this July after test riding many recumbent combinations. Added a full Zipp faring last month and it really cuts the wind load down. But, need advice on this one. Looking at purchasing an Airless Manaco tire 700x28c for the rear. Anyone have an experience with this type of tire? BOB500 ******************************** I think you will find that an Airfree tire will work well for you. The main trouble is that the BEST ones (made with High Resilient urathane) only come in 27". I have put several thousand miles on these 27" tires and am very well pleased with them. Generally, you will find that people who don't like them have NEVER tried them but relied upon the opinion of someone else, who has a theory that they don't work well. Lewis. ************************* |
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Jim wrote:
"Dave Larrington" wrote in message ... Bob500 wrote: But, need advice on this one. Looking at purchasing an Airless Manaco tire 700x28c for the rear. Anyone have an experience with this type of tire? Short answer: Don't. Long answer: AASHTA URL: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_a.html#airless I now am trying a Kevlar belted Primo Comet. This summer I had a Kevlar belted Primo Comet blow out on me at about 20 mph. The tire had less than 200 miles on it and it was inflated to 100 psi. The way it blew out left it unusable afterwards. It was the front tire, which made control of the bike very difficult. What I found ironic is that it replaced a regular Primo Comet that had gone over 5000 miles with very few flats. John Knez |
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Consider the Notubes system. It will give a lot better ride than an airless.
http://www.notubes.com/index.htm I haven't any personal experience with this sytem. Ian Simms of Greenspeed has trialled it. Paul W |
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Don't do it! But a Schwalbe marathon plus instead, it's almost puncture
proof i am using one on my Ryan Vanguard. SW "Bob500" wrote in message ... New member. Purchased an Easy Tour this July after test riding many recumbent combinations. Added a full Zipp faring last month and it really cuts the wind load down. But, need advice on this one. Looking at purchasing an Airless Manaco tire 700x28c for the rear. Anyone have an experience with this type of tire? BOB500 -- Bob500 |
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