Continental Home Trainer tire
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I've never had a silver marking, but either Conti or CT recommend cleaning the tire before each ride with isopropyl alcohol. I do this each time, never had a problem.
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Love(d) my bright orange Conti training tire on my CT. Smooth, no daily cleaning of rollers, put on 1000 miles last winter and 200 this year, until a surprise - wap - wap - wap - BAM, side wall blew out. LBS was wow'ed ! A new superman on the trainer? ( not ). Their sending it back to Conti for a swap out, meanwhile back to an old black Michelin left over. Lumpy, slips, have to clean after every CT ride. I'll go for another orange conti trainer tire, even with an occassional heart stopping side wall blowout.
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Love(d) my bright orange Conti training tire on my CT. Smooth, no daily cleaning of rollers, put on 1000 miles last winter and 200 this year, until a surprise - wap - wap - wap - BAM, side wall blew out. LBS was wow'ed ! A new superman on the trainer? ( not ). Their sending it back to Conti for a swap out, meanwhile back to an old black Michelin left over. Lumpy, slips, have to clean after every CT ride. I'll go for another orange conti trainer tire, even with an occassional heart stopping side wall blowout.
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I snapped a tool and popped a tube trying to put mine on. Hopefully it will last a while though, because its a long winter in Minnesota
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I found that they mount easier on rims that are 18mm or less. I put one on my hybrid rim 19mm the other day, it was a pain to get on and now have a pinch nerve in my hand. When I mounted it on my spare road wheel, 17mm, it went on with no issues and very quick.
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My LBS mounted one in about 1 minute using his hands. They never use levers.
Will never use a Conti Home Trainer again. I've had 2 that started spitting orange rubber all over. I used the first one for 100 miles, the 2nd for 22. I'm much happier with a cheap, hard tire. They don't wear at all.
Will never use a Conti Home Trainer again. I've had 2 that started spitting orange rubber all over. I used the first one for 100 miles, the 2nd for 22. I'm much happier with a cheap, hard tire. They don't wear at all.
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Thank god is wasn't just me. I mounted one of those tires late fall and had to walk away from it several times before I ended up chucking it into the woods behind my house. I finally got it mounted and I am spinning along when...
BOOM...Gave myself a heart attack, the cat, (who was watching my spinning warily through one slitted eye), just about S**T on the chair pad she was curled upon and my wife keeps yelling WTF was that...WTF was that! All I can think of after my heart stops racing is that I have to try to mount that tire again.
BOOM...Gave myself a heart attack, the cat, (who was watching my spinning warily through one slitted eye), just about S**T on the chair pad she was curled upon and my wife keeps yelling WTF was that...WTF was that! All I can think of after my heart stops racing is that I have to try to mount that tire again.
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I just put a conti trainer on this morning, took me a couple minutes longer than usual but got it on with plastic Tire levers. I also had it pop off the rim, my problem was the that tire was pinching the tube ever so slightly at that spot.
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I'm very happy with the tire. Use it on my CT. Wasn't too hard to mount on a Mavic Cosmos. Every other tire I had used eventually developed bumps/small blisters - so far, so good with this one after about 3 months.
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Bontrager Select. Original Rim that came with the Trek 1500.
Nice to know I wasn't the only one with a sidewall blowout as well. Really thought the $ 500 CT motor blew. Glad it was just the tire. Given everyone elses problems getting theirs mounted, I'll make sure to have the LBS do it for me.
Nice to know I wasn't the only one with a sidewall blowout as well. Really thought the $ 500 CT motor blew. Glad it was just the tire. Given everyone elses problems getting theirs mounted, I'll make sure to have the LBS do it for me.
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After working on this tire for while I've come to notice that the rim makes a sizeable difference in mounting difficulty. My Easton Vistas snap plastic levers. I just use the Park Tool metal levers for those. The Ultegra 6600 wheelset was mountable with plastic levers.
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Yep...I save my old ones and have an older wheel that I use on the trainer. Just pop on a used tire, ride it till the cord shows, then take it off and pop on another.
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I just wore through my 2nd last old tire and have 1 left. My LBS have the Conti and Tacx trainer tires, which I could get a deal on. A racing buddy of mine says he says 4000km (2000km per winter) on his Conti trainer tire without any issues. I'm at the point where I need to buy a trainer tire since I'm out of old tires to use. Any experiences with the Tacx tire?
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I've got about 250 miles on the tire so far and it is showing absolutely no wear at this point. I have had no orange pieces coming off on the trainer / floor. It's been perfect so far, only problem was mounting it.
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I just wore through my 2nd last old tire and have 1 left. My LBS have the Conti and Tacx trainer tires, which I could get a deal on. A racing buddy of mine says he says 4000km (2000km per winter) on his Conti trainer tire without any issues. I'm at the point where I need to buy a trainer tire since I'm out of old tires to use. Any experiences with the Tacx tire?
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Edit, sorry late.
Lubricate (water, soap, detergent, etc) + Kool Stop Tire Bead Jack = easy install Link (learned about it from Sheldon Brown's site).