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I have 35,000 km on my Marathon Mondials since 2019, is it time to change to them?
Maintenance strategies are on a spectrum.
On the one end of the spectrum:
"I'll fix it when it's broken. I'm going to get every last mile out of it"
This philosophy makes sense if you have a ...
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How much do ebikes actually benefit from ebike specific wheels, tires, and forks?
One thing to note is that the extra weight of the bike is unsprung (apart from the cushioning of the tyres). This means it subjects the wheels and frame/fork to greater shock loads than the same ...
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How much do ebikes actually benefit from ebike specific wheels, tires, and forks?
There could be other reasons than the technical ones, marketing could be also one.
I would however suspect that certification is the most important. For example, in Europe, fast e-bikes have different/...
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I have 35,000 km on my Marathon Mondials since 2019, is it time to change to them?
You should replace a tyre urgently if:
Carcass (the fabric underneath the rubber tread) is significantly damaged, for example a >5mm cut which allows the tube to poke through and the tyre to bulge....
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Bicycle tyre aspect ratio
The schwalbe tyres have a significant amount of tread and a thick puncture protection layer that makes them much taller than a typical road tyre.
Nominally a 25mm road tyre is 25mm tall on the rim. ...
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Bicycle tyre aspect ratio
A big difference between car and bike tyres is that bike tyres fit a range of rims. So the height and width of the tyre varies with the rim width used.
For sensible combinations of rim and tyre it ...
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How much do ebikes actually benefit from ebike specific wheels, tires, and forks?
E-bike oriented components usually fall into one of three categories:
Those that are specifically designed to better handle the specific mechanical properties of an e-bike, usually at the expense of ...
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How to balance tire rolling resistance against puncture proofness
I will use the same tires front and rear. While the rolling resistance of the front tire will be lower since there is a lower load on it with a lower tire pressure, the marginal gains of selecting a ...
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