Re: tire/tube brands


Tom Keats wrote:

Cheng Shins are an acquired taste. Another erstwhile regular poster
here once said: "they wear like iron, they ride like iron."
Their durability has earned my respect. Actually, after the first
8000 kilometres, they seem to break in and lose some of that
hard feel.

I had a set of stock Cheng Shins that must have done 15K miles with no
flats before it started to get creepy and I switched them to a pair of
Michelin Idilis.

If you're in the US, I find that the house brand tires from Nashbar and
Performance are really good. My two faves are the Performance 1.25"
slicks for mtbs, they feel marvelous; I also am incredibly impressed
with the Nashbar Prima 2 plus, a 700c training tire that's amazingly,
light, supple, and puncture proof. For a tenner either tire can't be
beat. For what it's worth, I believe both are made by Cheng Shin--the
Nashbar tire certainly is and it's indeed durable, but not
fantastically so like the first set I mentioned.

Panaracer Paselas are the group favorite for an all round tire. They
come in all sorts of sizes and are relatively cheap.

I commented on the cheap Hutchinson Flash tires a while back and I've
changed my mind on them. They were pretty good for winter slop due to
the gumwall's durability. The tread seemed really cut prone after a
couple sets, and their strength, the durable sidewall, was the
undoing--it made for a very dead feeling ride.

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