My query about a 559 size was really a forlorn and plaintive wish for such a thing. But now we hear that Jan/BQ/Compass will make a lightweight 559X32 ...!!!!!!!... so that perhaps our sobs were heard.
(When will that tire become available? Will production be ongoing? -- ie, it won't disappear from the market after six months?) I will stock up! The P-Rs were absolutely impossible on even nice, smooth, new area pavement because of their susceptibility to goathead punctures. I applied 20 (twenty, XX) patches in the first week. My 290 gram 650C skinnies are far, far *far* more goathead resistant. But Stan's solved the problem and I've not flatted in 2K miles. Occasionally I'll hear a soft *shhhhh* or see little wet spots on the tread, but I've not lost appreciable air. Note that this Stan's is in tubes; at 50+ psi it seems to work in tubes where, at 20 psi or less it doesn't. On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Peter Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > Nope; the Eroicas were a 700c tire, as are the P-Rs. Challenge doesn't > make 559 tires at all; the only mountain tires they make are 29er and 650B > tubulars. > > When the L'Eroica folks in Tuscany terminated their sponsorship deal with > Challenge and signed a deal with Continental, Challenge renamed their 30mm > gravel/road tire as Strada Bianca, and did a dual-layer puncture protection > (PPS) change, heavying the tire up a bit, in an effort to address the > alleged fragility of the P-R design. The current-gen P-Rs have the same > dual-PPS layer. I'm not clear whether the change was made in both models at > the same time, but that seems likely. > > As a company, Challenge seems to be aggressively clueless about selling > tires into the US market. I had my LBS (Missing Link in Berkeley CA) pursue > them for Eroica/Strada Bianca skinwall tubulars for nearly a year, but they > kept saying, "oh, *signore*; you can buy them at your local shop" (*we > are a local shop; how do we buy them*?). Euro-Asia and QBP are > distributors, but Euro-Asia hasn't updated to list the Strada Bianca (maybe > they still have Eroicas?), and QBP's catalog lists only a limited range - > no skinwalls at all. Honestly, who would want to buy spendy fatso road > tires except us retro-fetishists? Who do they think is buying these things? > > Unless you get a buy off CL or eBay, I think the best Challenge bet for a > US buyer is Wiggle in the UK; they seem to have a fairly complete > selection, at rather appealing prices. I'll support local merchants when I > can, but there has to be a limit. > > http://www.wiggle.com/cycle/tires/?ea=4294789336 > > Patrick, if you're using older P-Rs, aren't you getting...(ahem) *adverse > results* from those goatherds? > > Peter Adler > who doesn't have to deal with Mother Nature's wrathful debris, but only > the city trash of his fellow man in > Berkeley, CA/USA > > > On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 12:33:58 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> I'll have to look up the Eroicas. Don't suppose they are made in the 559 >> or 571 sizes .... >> >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Ron Mc <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Patrick, I found a pair of Eroicas, which have have the same single PPS >>> as the P-Rs. I run pressures way down, it doesn't slow them down, and it's >>> like riding on a cloud. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************* *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
