Schwalbe Stelvio letdown

[Dave Larrington]

[email protected] wrote:

> Allow me to recommend the Schwalbe Blizzard tyre.

Don't say that if Dave Kahn is around...

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Give the anarchist a cigarette.

 

[Mark Thompson]

> Funny thing is that even though I'm not at all a believer in
> superstition, I really was expecting a puncture tonight. ...Oops!...
> I did it again.

It's a superstition only when it isn't true...

 

[Jon is Away!]

Simon Mason wrote:
> Having had to walk 4 miles to a Halfords one evening last week due to a side
> wall blow out of my rear Conti UGS after hitting a broken bottle, I fitted
> the only road tyre in 23mm there, a Schwalbe Stelvio. It lasted two days
> before a tiny sliver of yellow glass punctured it. Back to the UGS I think.

I put a pair of 20mm Stelvios on in time to ride my first century.
They've since probably done about 500 miles. I was thinking about
sending a smug post mentioning my zero punctures, but it would appear
that the thought was enough. One flat on the way into work this
morning.

It was however entirely my fault. I realised when I left work last
night that I should have pumped them up a little, but took a chance on
them surviving the 5 miles home and back to work. I fully expect to
find a typical snake bite in the rear tube when I take it out this
afternoon!

Jon

 

[[email protected]]

Dave Larrington wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Allow me to recommend the Schwalbe Blizzard tyre.
>
> Don't say that if Dave Kahn is around...
>
<snip>

Hmmm, yeah, just found that post on a search...

Fair 'nuff - one vote each way so.

I think I'll keep my head down on this one so. There's somthing about
multiple p*******es that make even the most mild mannered cyclist lash
out suddenly and go for the throat...

Regards,

bookieb.

 

[David Martin]

[email protected] wrote:
> Allow me to recommend the Schwalbe Blizzard tyre.
> I've got just over 1000km on a pair of 700x23, run at 90-100psi.
> About half of that is commuting, half road riding in the countryside
> I'm 90kg (about 14.5stone), so this is a narrow tire to be using for
> commuting.
> Only 1 p******e in that, which was a little piece of wire (mucho thanks
> to the inventor of the wire-belted radial car tire).
> No sign of any significant wear yet, front or rear.
> They're kevlar belted, wire beaded, and have a light herringbone tread
> design.
> They're about 40% of the price of the Stelvios hereabouts, and a little
> heavier with it, but execellent value for money so far.
>
> Small sample I know, but so far, so very good...

I have far further than that on mine, with only two punctures in five
years.

Now riding a Bontrager thinghy that was cheap and colourful.

...d

 

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On 26 Oct 2005 09:18:52 GMT, [email protected] (Arthur Clune) said in
<[email protected]>:

>You need to buy a set of Park Tyre Boots. Cost about bugger all and they'd have
>let you ride home.

Seconded. A must if you ride lightweight tyres, I'd say.

Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

 

[Arthur Clune]

Jon is Away! wrote:
>
> I put a pair of 20mm Stelvios on in time to ride my first century.

You've been talking to Simon too much. Get some 23s

--
Arthur Clune

 

[dkahn400]

[email protected] wrote:
> Dave Larrington wrote:
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > Allow me to recommend the Schwalbe Blizzard tyre.
> >
> > Don't say that if Dave Kahn is around...
> >
> <snip>
>
> Hmmm, yeah, just found that post on a search...

In fairness to the Schwalbe it was near the end of its life anyway and
had given reasonably good service up to that point. I bought it at one
of the controls on the LEL and did the last 500k or so on it without
another puncture. I'd been riding it since so it must have done at
least 3,000k. It suffered a few punctures in the time up to the fatal
commute but no more than I'd expect with a light tyre. Its riding
qualities were very good: fast and light with good roadholding.

--
Dave...

 

[Jon Senior]

Arthur Clune wrote:
> You've been talking to Simon too much. Get some 23s

Nah, as I don't race, the Giant is all about the look. It has CF bottle
cages, but I had to fashion an aluminium mount to move one of the high
enough to stop them interfering with one another. The 20mm tyres are the
same width as the rims, and there is a beautiful elegance about that.

Besides, I'm damned if I can tell the difference between them and the
various 23mm tyres I've run on that bike.

My favourites were the 23mm Hutchinson Carbon Comps that came on it.
They felt really good, but punctured a little too easily.

Jon