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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: Patching TPU innertube
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:28:59 -0500
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On 12/27/2024 3:54 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I'd be interested in people's personal measurements of differences. If
>> someone here had access to some long, gentle downhill and kept track of
>> terminal coasting speed using different tires, different tubes, but
>> otherwise identical equipment, terminal coasting speeds might be good
>> information.
>>
>> It would be best to test in consistent temperatures and with negligible
>> wind, of course.
>>
> 
> The difference I was talking about was feel, than any speed/rolling
> resistance gains which apparently one does also gain.

Given what I've read about violins (Stradivarius can't be told from 
modern ones in blind hearing tests) and wines (cheap wines really light 
up pleasure centers in the brain if tasters are told the wine is 
expensive), I'm somewhat skeptical of a lot of "feel" judgements 
regarding bike tires - and bikes.



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- Frank Krygowski