On Aug 5, 2009, at 18:22, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 18:53 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
>> Yes. They have thicker rubber, more hysteresis losses and higher
>> rolling resistance. "Puncture resistant" and "fast" are pretty much
>> antithetical when it comes to bike tires. The rider can make their
>> choice about their priorities.
>
> However, sometimes you can have it both ways. The Hetre by all
> accounts
> is pretty puncture resistant and fast as well.
My longest ever flat-free streak was on Hetres, and well-worn ones at
that.
Worst were Ruffy Tuffies, which is suprising since flat resistance is
supposedly one of their virtues.
Could just be variability in the local goathead crop, I guess.
Ryan
Albuquerque NM
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