Update. I prepped the Hilsen last night for a 300k I'm doing on Saturday. I put a couple hours more work into trying to get these Hetres to run reasonably straight and round to no avail. I'm going to return them to Compass and see what comes of that. Instead I put new pair of Soma New Express tires on the Hilsen, and with no unusual effort, they run perfectly normal. So to me that rules out there being anything fundamentally wrong with my rims or my tubes. Those Somas are Panaracer-made.
On Mar 17, 11:13 am, SteveF <frede...@msu.edu> wrote: > I hate to say it but Panaracer's QC seems to be slipping a bit. There > was a rash of sidewall bulges and failures in Pasela's not long ago. > And lately many of the Panaracer-made tires I've bought had issues > with running true and wobble free. I have had to date a Hetre, a > Pasela TG, a Soma-branded version of Pasela, a PariMoto and a > ColdelaVie all with a degree of wobble, bulgy, irregular casings or > some similar flaw...I bought all these in pairs and the mates are > generally good so it's not across the board, but 50% seems a high rate > of issue-prone casings to me. (I have re-seated and checked the bead > on these multiple times and it doesn't appear to be installation > error) > > The only one I felt was bad enough to exchange was the Pasela TG which > showed signs of a sidewall fixin' to bust. The rest are like Brett's > Hetre--just a bit off true and I can feel a wobble or pulse/thump when > riding on smooth surfaces. Not enough to bother exchanging them but a > bit annoying, especially in the ones that cost north of $50. > > Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
