On 12/30/2013 09:39 AM, Eric Norris wrote:
Love the bike. Extremely comfortable, and certainly well suited to
long-distance brevets.
This was the first time on Grand Bois Hetres, and they did in fact
make a huge difference in the way the bike rides. Amazing how
imperfections in the road surface disappear.
Hetres are wonderful. They ride very well, last a very long time and
are (in my experience, anyway) robust and get very few flats. When the
"ribs" wear down smooth there's still around 2,000 mi of tread life left.
There's even good in worn out ones. You know very often you get glass
punctures and cuts that go all the way through the tire and leave
sometimes excessively large holes. A used Hetre offers the perfect
material for patching and repairing such holes. The Hetre has a very
large sidewall area between the bead and the tread rubber -- more than 1
cm wide, much larger than other tires -- that is perfect as a glued-on
inside boot to patch such holes. Both rubber cement and Shoe Goo work
to paste such patches down. I've also used a patch made from a Hetre
sidewall to fix an abrasion or scuff that had gone all the way through
the sidewall of a Pari Moto, that one with Shoe Goo. (I wasn't 100%
sure the scrape went all the way through, not until I pumped up the tire
and the Shoe Goo started oozing through!)
I've even used material taken from a worn-out Hetre to fix a tear in the
sole of a Performance neoprene bootie: a patch inside made from the
sidewall, and a section of tread rubber pasted on the outside, on top of
the sole over the tear.
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