Panaracer Pro Tite for me. Found most other tires (like Gravel Kings and
Rene Herse) good, but more aspirational about the riding I “could do”
versus what I “really do”. I’m burned out on tan walls right now, so black
wins for me.
On Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 5:27:09 PM UTC-5 divis...@gmail.com wrote:
> GK Slicks and Compass/RH slicks do get pinhole punctures, but tire
> pressure and tire age are both factors. All the Compass/RH tires I've ever
> ridden have been acquired used (I have a NIP Babyshoe Pass that I have yet
> to try), so the tread had cured at least a little bit before I got them. I
> have a set of Stampede Pass standards on my gofast wheelset that's rotated
> between four road bikes; I've put at least 2000 miles on them on city
> streets over the last 10 or so years, with two total flats. I'm typically
> running them at around 70 PSI, give or take.
>
> Inspired by the longevity of these tires, I bought a new set of 700x35 GK
> Slicks (the weight is officially lighter than the BJP standards and heavier
> than the BJP extralights) for my Trek 720 pack mule, on the grounds that
> they were structurally identical to the corresponding RHes at half the
> price. I had ridden that tire set for about 500 miles (65-70 PSI) with one
> flat (rode over a carpet tack standing straight up on a poorly-lit street;
> an act of Road God), when I had a dramatic failure in a Christmas Eve night
> debacle, with three flats from glass slivers in a single block. Once I'd
> gotten the bike home, I stripped the GKs off for bad hoodoo, and replaced
> them with a set of used BJPs I'd had in my parts box as a replacement for
> the SPs on the gofast wheelset. The reliability difference was dramatic.
> Running at the same 65-70 PSI, I rode those used RH tires for 18 months and
> nearly 3000 miles before the next flat.
>
> Over the last few months, I've flatted three or four times on the RHes;
> clearly, the tread has worn thin. I was discussing the issue with a
> repairman at one of the local bike kitchens. He mentioned that GK Slicks
> hold up fine, but it takes a while for the rubber to cure - several months,
> or several hundred miles. Although that's in keeping with bike tire
> traditions ("inflate your new tubulars on a rim and age them over the
> winter" et al), it had never occurred to me that my shiny-new tires might
> take a period of aging to be fully ready for road use. I've reinstalled the
> GKs and put about 250 miles on them without incident. Maybe the intervening
> 20 months has aged the rubber enough to stand up to small road hazards?
> Fingers crossed...
>
> Peter "once bit" Adler
> Berkeley, CA
>
>
> On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 6:40:51 PM UTC-7 ted.l...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Regarding the Gravel Kings I had the 32mm SS tires on my road bike for a
> time and they did feel nice. My only complaint about them is the same as
> with the smooth RH tires; they get little pinhole punctures.
>
>
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