Tannus tyre on a rear wheel of a Brompton
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Tannus tyre on a rear wheel of a Brompton
Has anyone had experience of fitting a Tannus tyre on the rear wheel of a Brompton ?
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Thanks for your reply..
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And, the inserts are the same. I could not fit the insert and tyre on the rim... no way I could have fitted a slim inner tube.
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So what about the brakes? Brompton lacks brake cable releases, so to take a tire off you have the choice of either unscrewing the bolt that secures the cable or deflating the tire. Getting the cable back to the optimal tension is a major pain, but with Tannus you are not going to have a choice, just counting on the fewer instances when you need to take the wheel off. However, with tires equipped with a puncture resistant layer, you hardly ever get the punctures.
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With a Tannus tyre you have a tyre that never punctures so the problem does not arise..apart from when the trye wears out..
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These tires are said to slide easily on wet surfaces. I had considered them, but realized there's too many negatives with them.
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Another solution is leaving the tire on, and simply fixing the flat, Dutch-style.
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Don't you have Shimano inline quick release brake cable adjusters on your Brompton for precisely that reason? Or did I read that elsewhere?
Another solution is leaving the tire on, and simply fixing the flat, Dutch-style.
Another solution is leaving the tire on, and simply fixing the flat, Dutch-style.
As to the Dutch style, I tend to avoid it. I anticipate all aspects of the job to be better, at least on the average, when taking the tire fully off. Yes, taking the rear off in Brompton is cumbersome, but i have done it so many times, that I could do it largely automatically when half asleep. Connecting back to the original topic, the puncture cases were relatively few there. The last two might have been changing sprockets and straightening the rear rack after the bike got brutalized in air travel.
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But they were so *#$# slow I couldn't take it and took them off.
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Schwalbe is working on a airless tire.
Apparently it's available in the EU but not the USA so far.
No additional information available.
(it's schwalbe so it's probably going to be a better produce
Apparently it's available in the EU but not the USA so far.
No additional information available.
(it's schwalbe so it's probably going to be a better produce