Jan Heine on wide tires for the road - Page 6

marsh · #76 08-10-2022, 12:48 PM

Still not sure why I got rid of this. Fantastic all-rounder tires.
Overhyped/overpriced? Pretty subjective, but I have yet to ride 26er tires that could go pretty fast on pavement and handle dry single track no problemo.

fourflys · #77 08-10-2022, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by NHAero

I wasted a good hour last night reading through that whole VSalon thread on Jan's test of the Peg Love #3. That certainly was a questionable test, but holy cow, the vitriol! As Old Spud says, at the end of the day, they are just toys!

Right?!?! I had forgotten I had commented on that thread (to support Jan coming on to answer questions, etc).. pretty sure that might have been the thread that steered me away from that site..

As I said earlier, lots of great people on there, but man o man on some of them.. just feels like such a need to say the right thing at the right time to be "with it".. certainly a lot of "not my in my club" in that thread..

fourflys · #78 08-10-2022, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by AngryScientist

Awesome, might have to look at doing this..

rowebr · #79 08-10-2022, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by AngryScientist

Well that is incredibly cool! What kind of riding do you have in mind for it? Seems like it could handle pretty much anything, so I wonder what you'll find is the most fun.

C40_guy · #80 08-10-2022, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by desertoracle

my longest ever ride was also on a 26x2.3s, but I would not describe it as "Transcendent" or whatever

My longest ride ever was on 700C x 23. Wonder if that throws off Jan's calculations.

R3awak3n · #81 08-10-2022, 03:12 PM

I think from now on when the biching and moaning starts we just should post countless pictures of rad bikes.

I love that Bridgestone, so rad

EB · #82 08-10-2022, 03:15 PM

Once again Jan Heine, number one paceline troll - without even having to post here himself!

spoonrobot · #83 08-10-2022, 03:16 PM

Right on, here's the winner of DKXL, a 350 mile gravel ride. A little under 23 hours on 40mm tires. He actually had narrower tires than most of the top 25 in the 200 mile event

R3awak3n · #84 08-10-2022, 03:17 PM

Trying to get into bikes again and just got done recabling this guy, its a fantastic bike but always hated those ritchey handlebars and have been lazy to re-tape and re-cable (since moving a size bigger), just can't do no flat tops any longer. I still have it it seems, re-cabled the whole bike and just waiting on a couple things and it will be back in action

R3awak3n · #85 08-10-2022, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by spoonrobot

Right on, here's the winner of DKXL, a 350 mile gravel ride. A little under 23 hours on 40mm tires. He actually had narrower tires than most of the top 25 in the 200 mile event

40mm is basically the tire most people choose at DK, its btw a 38 and a 40.

But lets be honest, do we really think that dude would have lost if he had a 45?

hummus_aquinas · #86 08-10-2022, 03:19 PM

Switchback Hill enjoyer over here! I kinda miss this iteration of my romancer c. 2017..

spoonrobot · #87 08-10-2022, 03:27 PM

Here's the Transcon 2022 winner's bike, 28mm tires, 9 days 14 hours

I'm sure he'd have been just as fast on 44s

R3awak3n · #88 08-10-2022, 03:36 PM

Sophianes Tour Divide 2022 bike

won on Jan Heines yterrible crappy horrible overpriced ugly tires

David Kirk · #89 08-10-2022, 03:43 PM

Some simple roll-down tests would give a real world number or how fast or not-as-fast the tires are. It's super easy to do, free, repeatable and easy to understand.

dave

spoonrobot · #90 08-10-2022, 03:48 PM

And here's Sofiane at the SRMR giving the straight dope. 8+ punctures and pinch flats on his Rene Herse tires.

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Originally Posted by R3awak3n

Sophianes Tour Divide 2022 bike

https://i.shgcdn.com/aae345f4-e767-4...ality/lighter/

won on Jan Heines yterrible crappy horrible overpriced ugly tires

You keep proving my point, TDR has some brutal sections and yet the winners are always on the same sizes (or even smaller) than the rest of the field - 55mm (actual 52mm) tires for the TDR? Yes, exactly. Come at me with the winner that's on 4.0s or hell even 2.8s. TDR tires have gotten smaller in 15 years of racing the course.

Anyone winning road races on 35s? Bumpy technical crits on 42s? Gravel road races on 54s? Real events, not local yokel 15 person fields and practice races at the airfield.

I saw Jan's favorite indoor go kart track fixed gear champion - but please something real next time. You have your homework, refute me if you can.