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Submitted by
Izzy
a Weekend Warrior
from Borden, Indiana, USA
Date Reviewed: 2/11/2008 4:31:29 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Virginia's Skyline Drive |
| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Price Paid: | $20 |
| Strengths: | Sure, excellent handling on paved roads at any speed. Quiet, comfortable ride. Long tread life. Seemingly good puncture resistance. |
| Weaknesses: | Sidewalls of the gumwall models crack and dry rot within four years. The blackwall models I'm now using seem to have more rubber, flex, and uv-resistance in the sidewall. |
| Bike Setup: | Trek 7500 Multitrack hybrid. |
| Bottom Line: | A most-excellent paved-road tire. Good on groomed, compacted gravel, too, like the carriage roads of Acadia Nat'l Park. |
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Submitted by
Miguel
a Weekend Warrior
from Houston, TX, Harris
Date Reviewed: 2/2/2008 5:31:01 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Tidwell Blvd |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $20 |
| Purchased At: | Urban Bicycle Gallery (You guys ROCK) |
| Strengths: | Grippy, smooth rolling, quiet too. |
| Weaknesses: | Not a whole lot yet. A little noisy in turns..? A little hard to mount, but not as much as mentioned here. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Moby Bites, Panaracer Hi Road, Serfas Drifters |
| Bike Setup: | Late eighties Schwinn Impact, slowly being converted to urban duty. |
| Bottom Line: | A great street tire!! I installed them and was instantly impressed. Some inverted tread tires will vibe or feel funky in turns. These keep right on gripping. They make a little noise while turning, but this may stop once they wear in a bit. Very cool tread design. Other tires I looked at in the shop looked like modified MTB tires and would probably get spooky on the street like most seem to do. All around these are a smooth rolling very grippy tire. I can't wait to try them on wet surfaces. Not for a serious offroad bike, but they will probably handle a light hard surface trail. |
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Submitted by
Stutho
from Gower, UK
Date Reviewed: 2/14/2006 5:59:39 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 2 Years |
| Purchased At: | came fitted to my trek |
| Strengths: | Endurance these tires last! 4500+ miles on one set! |
| Weaknesses: | Not recomended for off road. |
| Bike Setup: | Trek 7700 (Ali hybrid, XT equip, 700c) |
| Bottom Line: | I live in a rural area and ride about 15 (hilly) miles a day to work. The roads are often muddy, always wet and occasionally icy. These tyres have always been great (except on the ice!) I have used them off road as well – worked but wouldn't recommend. Tyre is very hard to get on and off my rims but how often do you do this? In short a fast but grippe tyre that lasts and last and last (+ 4500 miles) Ps 3 punctures in 4500 miles (hedge clippings *2, ? * 1) |
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Submitted by
Cole
a Weekend Warrior
from Boston
Date Reviewed: 7/31/2004 6:23:58 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | 15.00 |
| Strengths: | The difference between these tires and knobbies on the road are amazing. Acceleration is greatly improved and the bike feels much better than with the stock bontrager connection. I even used these on single track and could still keep up with my friends, just watch out for mud because you will sink right in. |
| Weaknesses: | none so far, few hundred miles and no flats yet. |
| Similar Products Tried: | none |
| Bike Setup: | Trek 4300 |
| Bottom Line: | Good road tires for MTB that will take the abuse of city curb hopping and can handle XC off road, just dont do anything crazy! |
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Submitted by
nick jan
from nanaimo, BC, Canada (residing in Japan)
Date Reviewed: 4/13/2003 8:11:14 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | anything with dirt will do |
| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $15 |
| Purchased At: | Ken`s Cyclehouse |
| Strengths: | smooth and fast on the road yet able to handle light trail riding if you are careful. The tread is great in the rain. I was even forced to use them with a light dusting of snow and some ice on the ground and had no troubles. The diamiter is big engough that they can take a fairly good hit without going flat in a second. |
| Weaknesses: | they don`t seat on my rims properly, making them one of the probably the most frustrating set of tires I`ve ever owned. Any other tire I put on the rim seats perfectly yet I really have to work at these to get all the lumps and bumps to go away. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Hutchinson top slick. |
| Bike Setup: | frame and wheels. what do you care, you`re reading this for the tires, right? |
| Bottom Line: | The tires have the perfect deamiter, tread pattern and performance, the only problem is the hassle involved in getting them seated. For this reason, I won`t buy them again. |
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Submitted by
Don Smith
a Weekend Warrior
from Cullman AL USA
Date Reviewed: 7/25/2002 7:31:37 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $15 |
| Purchased At: | Huntsville AL |
| Strengths: | Very smooth ride for street. Greatly improved cornering over my OEM tires. First day out matched my personal best on a short 12 mile road circuit I ride. Tolerant of small road debris on street and not wet sensitive. Very resistant to wandering. |
| Weaknesses: | Wish it came in a 1.95. Don't buy if you are going to spend time in loose stuff off road. |
| Bike Setup: | TREK Navigator |
| Bottom Line: | Strongly recommend to anyone who uses their bike 90% on the road. Makes a great front tire for a larger rear. I've ridden street motercycles for years and the idea of a narrow ribbed front with smooth centered rear is standard. I now run the Bontanger Invert 1.5 in the front with a Bontranger 1.95 Comfort on the rear. |
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