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Date: 20 Sep 2006 22:05:50
From: DaveH
Subject: Kenda Kaliente tires
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I bought a pair of these on the advice of a local LBS for my
Rivendell Rambouillet. 700C x 23. However, there are some reports on
Roadbikereview.com that this tire is sluggish, or slow. I'm seeking
reports before I mount them and render then un-returnable.
Previous tires:
* Riv's Ruffy Tuffy, 700 x 27
* Michelin Eriliums, Gator Skins, and Bontrager Race-Lite Hardcase:
all 700 x 23.
The RT is actually a pretty good tire; but there is something about
the girth of anything larger than a 23 that bothers me. Probably
silly, though I am 173 lbs and ride on good pavement.
The Gator Skins are fairly fast and supple, but were sliced and
punctured within 100 miles. The Bontragers are dreadful--hard, rough,
slow, sluggish...feeling they're made of hard clay and filled with
lead.
I want to avoid anything approaching the Bontrager Hardcase effect and
thus my request for Kaliente reports.
Dave
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Date: 21 Sep 2006 06:37:41
From: Mark Hickey
Subject: Re: Kenda Kaliente tires
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DaveH <ddhartwick@earthlink.net > wrote:
>I bought a pair of these on the advice of a local LBS for my
>Rivendell Rambouillet. 700C x 23. However, there are some reports on
>Roadbikereview.com that this tire is sluggish, or slow. I'm seeking
>reports before I mount them and render then un-returnable.
>
>Previous tires:
>* Riv's Ruffy Tuffy, 700 x 27
>* Michelin Eriliums, Gator Skins, and Bontrager Race-Lite Hardcase:
>all 700 x 23.
>
>The RT is actually a pretty good tire; but there is something about
>the girth of anything larger than a 23 that bothers me. Probably
>silly, though I am 173 lbs and ride on good pavement.
>
>The Gator Skins are fairly fast and supple, but were sliced and
>punctured within 100 miles. The Bontragers are dreadful--hard, rough,
>slow, sluggish...feeling they're made of hard clay and filled with
>lead.
>
>I want to avoid anything approaching the Bontrager Hardcase effect and
>thus my request for Kaliente reports.
I'll chime in here with my regular pitch for the Panaracer T-Serv
tires. They ride and feel like the Gatorskins (which, as you noticed,
is a good thing), but wear like iron and don't have the fragile
sidewalls.
k Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame
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Date: 22 Sep 2006 04:18:28
From: Ryan Cousineau
Subject: Re: Kenda Kaliente tires
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In article <3b55h21sfeq6l1u9lvf64q26d9iohub8bg@4ax.com >,
k Hickey <k@habcycles.com > wrote:
> DaveH <ddhartwick@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >I bought a pair of these on the advice of a local LBS for my
> >Rivendell Rambouillet. 700C x 23. However, there are some reports on
> >Roadbikereview.com that this tire is sluggish, or slow. I'm seeking
> >reports before I mount them and render then un-returnable.
>
> >
> >I want to avoid anything approaching the Bontrager Hardcase effect and
> >thus my request for Kaliente reports.
>
> I'll chime in here with my regular pitch for the Panaracer T-Serv
> tires. They ride and feel like the Gatorskins (which, as you noticed,
> is a good thing), but wear like iron and don't have the fragile
> sidewalls.
With my usual disclaimer that tires are yet another part of the bike
where I wouldn't expect much in objective, A-B-X-test-surviving "feel"
differences, at least within classes such as "700x23 slick road tires",
I have used Kenda Kalientes as my priy racing and commuting tire for
the past two years.
Last year, I had a really good race season on these tires. This year, I
got fat.
The Kaliente has been a silent partner in this affair: I pump them to
120 psi, they don't do anything untoward. Easy on and easy off the rims,
no obvious tire-related problems, and I get a very good deal on them
from a local supplier.
An older, cagier club-mate likes them so much he bought a ten-year stock
from said local supplier.
I have one complaint: when pumped to 120 psi, they offer minimal grip on
loose gravel paths. Like the one I tried to ride a few weeks ago. Hm.
--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
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