Need Advice on Airless Rear Tire for an Easy Tour

[Bob500]

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

 

[Dave Larrington]

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>

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[Peter Clinch]

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.
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[Eric Jorgensen]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:13:10 +1100
Bob500 <[email protected]> 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.

 

[Jim]

"Dave Larrington" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> 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.

 

[Lewis Campbell]

Bob500 <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> 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

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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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[John Knez]

Jim wrote:
> "Dave Larrington" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
>>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

 

[Paul W]

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

 

[Steve W]

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" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> 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
>
>
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> Bob500
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