1. This sentence from the cyclingnews.com article invokes in me a Jon Stewart "Oh, NOOOOOOO"-like protest:
Specialized tyre product manager Wolf vorm Walde claims the Mondo\u2019s replacement \u2013 the Turbo \u2013 is now on-par with the rest of the high-end road tyre market in terms of rolling resistance.
My first and only contact with the "Philadelphia lawyer" -as- villain was one who included a new Specialized Turbo tire, still in box, as part of the all-Campy tub set he listed on ebay. I was happy to find rare NOS tub as a spare. Except it wasn't. Specialized sold Turbos of three kinds, one a glue on and two for clinchers, one of them folding, just like a tub. That's what I got. *Caveat emptor*.
2. Some other time and in the right place, I hope to learn why a remote-control electricity-powered two or three wheel cart isn't the preferred close-to-real world test bed for bicycle tires. The cart, a set of dummies to simulate various masses and energy absorptions, a watt-meter, a wheel-swapper, and a remote-controller.
Send the cart out and back different country roads, and in circles on large vacant parking lots.
Harry Travis Pine Barrens of NJ USA
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Julian Shapiro <julianshapiro@gmail.com>wrote:
> >From Velonews:
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> http://www.cyclingnews.com/
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> Further confirmation of what "our own" Jan Heine has been telling us for
> years.
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> Julian Shapiro
> in icy icy Sag Harbor, NY
> (where tires don't matter much on the mag-trainer)
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Harry Travis