will slicker tires make a notable difference?
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I can offer a side note in saying that when I went from a patterned Marathon Mondial to a smooth Conti Travel Contact, I appreciated the latter's silence. The Mondails hum on the road which, of course, is energy lost as sound and heat. I didn't care so much about that, but the silence of a smooth tire sure is nice.
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Since you have been quoted here, I was going to reach out to you to get some clarification:
How wide a range of tires did you find the roller data to match up consistently with the real world data? Does this include touring and gravel tires?
This is exactly the info I've been hoping to find out for a long time.
Thanks in advance.
How wide a range of tires did you find the roller data to match up consistently with the real world data? Does this include touring and gravel tires?
This is exactly the info I've been hoping to find out for a long time.
Thanks in advance.
Second, more to your purposes, we were racing, so almost all of our tests (except for a couple of tests of training tires) were for racing tires, and those were tires that we either personally owned or were sent to us for testing -- remember, I said none of us work in the industry. So, altogether, there were maybe a a dozen of these joint tests until we got tired (!) of doing them -- field testing is a lot more time intensive than roller testing and none of us were getting paid for it (cuz we're not in the industry) so once we saw that relative rankings hardly ever changed, we stopped that unless there was a really good reason. I was happy and relieved for that.
Third, one of the really good reasons to continue field tests, even though they're time-consuming, was because of what is presently called "impedance." Once again, if you go onto Slowtwitch and search for it, you'll find in what was then real-time, this puzzle that although the roller and field test rank orderings didn't change, we were interested in finding out why the raw Crr estimates differed. (If you listen to Josh's recent podcast on Models and Modeling, you'll see that we were still trying to understand the tire resistance model). So we were trying a bunch of things, including different temperature tests, adding texture to rollers, seeking out freshly paved vs. older asphalt vs. chipseal vs. cobbled pave' (I was living in Europe and had cobblestones outside my door), and changing tire pressure. It was during this phase of testing that Tom observed what we now call a "breakpoint" inflection with tire pressure. This was unexpected. So at first we (we including Tom) thought his experiments were in error. So he repeated them, and we were shooting emails back-and-forth trying to diagnose what he'd done wrong. Once again, the main point is that we were trying to disprove what we were seeing, not prove something we hypothesized the existence of.
Fourth, what I didn't know at the time was that people in the bike and tire industry were following what we were doing. Among those people was Josh (but there are others). It wasn't until years later that Josh started talking publicly about the tire and inflation testing they were doing for Paris-Roubaix. Tom still does gravel racing so he's been expanding his tests to gravel tires, but I'm still riding on the road so I only care about road tires.
This is a long way of saying that the evidence is really there, but not collected in a single paper, or a single post. We don't make any money off this so we don't have an incentive to collect the data into a paper. The people who do get money from this have an incentive not to give away their research. You have to paw through a hundred posts spread out over 3 or 4 years to get the full picture -- but it's there.
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Geez, didn't you want to keep bleating "I'm waiting" like a 2nd grade teacher ... until an authority shows up? Then your manner changes.
Honestly, I couldn't care less about roller tests, but this forum devolves into MAMIL posturing matches with depressing frequency.
Honestly, I couldn't care less about roller tests, but this forum devolves into MAMIL posturing matches with depressing frequency.
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That discussion ended 5 days ago. Do you really want to drag this up again and keep it going?
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Five days is the blink of an eye for threads on this forum. Unless, I guess, you spend your days snapping at people that you're waiting on their posts?
I think it would have gone down easier if you simply manned up and said you got your ass handed to you.
I think it would have gone down easier if you simply manned up and said you got your ass handed to you.
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You actually want to have an argument about an argument..... that you were not even part of.
Yeah, BF at its finest, here.
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