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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: Rene Herse "New type of tire"
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 16:09:43 -0500
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On 1/8/2025 3:29 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 1/8/2025 11:36 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 11:02:58 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/8/2025 2:34 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Indeed it very much looks like some of the more street tyres for MTB’s
>>>> you’d see in the 1980’s and so on!
>>>
>>> Like many or most marketers, I think Jan Heine is touting nearly
>>> imperceptible differences.
>>
>> On the other hand, there's no such thing as "too many choices."
>>
>> -- 
>> C'est bon
>> Soloman
> 
> +1
> Either they sell enough at a high enough margin to recover their tooling 
> expense plus some operations profit or that tire will just go away. Like 
> anything else.

I'd be a bit interested in exactly how a small company's "new" tire 
comes to market.

Obviously, Rene Herse Inc. does not make any parts of the tire. I 
suspect Jan Heine and crew select from a menu of choices regarding 
beads, fabrics, perhaps adhesives and whatever else matters regarding 
the casing. I wonder exactly how those factors differ from other tires - 
especially the Paselas that I usually use.

I imagine the recipe for tread rubber is also pretty much a menu choice, 
affecting longevity vs. traction and/or other factors. It sounds like he 
gets to choose the tread design, so effectively the design of the mold 
for the tread rubber, which I suppose will be used only for his brand. 
That cost has to be amortized over the total sales of that model of tire.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski