Piemaster
Guru
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- UK City of Culture
Especially when they're still attached to the tree.Cornering in leaves is a really bad idea
Any one had any experience of Tannus Polymer Tyres?
- Thread starter Dave the Smeghead
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Cush
Veteran
- Location
- North Cumbria but still a Geordie
Still off the bike. It's waiting in Penrith to get the rear wheel fitted with a Tannus tyre. Hopefully I will get it back Wednesday or Thursday. Then I will give a report on my first ride with it. Just getting the rear wheel done at the moment as the front tyre is in good condition.
Nocode
Senior Member
- Location
- Orpington, Kent
I gave the Tannus tyres a go earlier in the year after a work colleague was singing their praises.
My first reaction was that they weren't the uncomfortable ride I thought they would be. My second reaction was that there was definitely a lot more rolling resistance compared to the Continental 4 Seasons I was used to running. I found I was putting in considerably more effort (measured with both perceived effort and HR) to get near the speeds I was used to riding on my 30 mile round-trip commute. The most telling point re: the rolling resistance was from another colleague I sometimes cycle to work with - normally on the downhills I would easily gap him, even freewheeling (I'm a lot heavier than he is) but with the Tannus tyres he was sucking my back wheel.
I decided to then go back to my wheels with pneumatics for the summer and enjoy my commutes, leaving the Tannus tyres on my commuting wheels for the winter. After all, I'm sure the tyres would come into their own on the cold, wet, heightened puncture risk rides that come with the winter season. Or at least, I thought that was a good idea...
In the meanwhile my colleague continued to ride on his Tannus tyres over the spring and summer and put a good amount of mileage on them. However, he found that well before their advertised mileage they started to become slippy and he had a couple of 'moments' before finally having an off in slightly damp conditions the other month. He's now decided to go back to pneumatics because it's simply not worth the risk of having an accident, or cost-effective to buy a new set of tyres well before their advertised end of life period - they're not cheap either.
I'm now planning to remove the Tannus tyres (not looking forward to that!) and run pneumatics during the winter (thinking Maxxis Re-Fuse tyres over Conti 4 Seasons) because I don't want to risk having an off.
My first reaction was that they weren't the uncomfortable ride I thought they would be. My second reaction was that there was definitely a lot more rolling resistance compared to the Continental 4 Seasons I was used to running. I found I was putting in considerably more effort (measured with both perceived effort and HR) to get near the speeds I was used to riding on my 30 mile round-trip commute. The most telling point re: the rolling resistance was from another colleague I sometimes cycle to work with - normally on the downhills I would easily gap him, even freewheeling (I'm a lot heavier than he is) but with the Tannus tyres he was sucking my back wheel.
I decided to then go back to my wheels with pneumatics for the summer and enjoy my commutes, leaving the Tannus tyres on my commuting wheels for the winter. After all, I'm sure the tyres would come into their own on the cold, wet, heightened puncture risk rides that come with the winter season. Or at least, I thought that was a good idea...
In the meanwhile my colleague continued to ride on his Tannus tyres over the spring and summer and put a good amount of mileage on them. However, he found that well before their advertised mileage they started to become slippy and he had a couple of 'moments' before finally having an off in slightly damp conditions the other month. He's now decided to go back to pneumatics because it's simply not worth the risk of having an accident, or cost-effective to buy a new set of tyres well before their advertised end of life period - they're not cheap either.
I'm now planning to remove the Tannus tyres (not looking forward to that!) and run pneumatics during the winter (thinking Maxxis Re-Fuse tyres over Conti 4 Seasons) because I don't want to risk having an off.
Were you riding them when we bumped into each other?
Nocode
Senior Member
- Location
- Orpington, Kent
I can't remember to be honest. Let's just say "yes" then I have that as an excuse for not being able to keep up with you going up Locksbottom Hill
Cush
Veteran
- Location
- North Cumbria but still a Geordie
Picked up the bike today and rode home. Tannus tyre just fitted to rear wheel (Alfine 11 gear) Some minor hills and a bit of loose gravel but otherwise smooth roads. No comment at the moment I was slow but this could be down to lack of riding over the last three months.
