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- From: jbrandt@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Jobst Brandt)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:30:13 GMT
- Subject: Re: Team Motorola will Race on Clinchers in 1993
- Message-ID: <3450009@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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- Ian D. Bjorhovde writes:
-
- > I agree WHOLE-HEARTEDLY. I switched to Conts when my team was
- > given a good deal on tires, and I was finally rescued from the
- > god-awful Michelins that I had been riding (read: flats galore,
- > torn sidewalls, etc).
-
- I think there is a misunderstanding of the concept here. Pro teams
- don't choose tires on the basis of whether they get glass cuts or
- thorns. First off, the roads they race on in Europe have
- practically none of these hazards and second, they ride the tire
- that pays them to ride them. Tires are such an apparently important
- piece of equipment that I can't imagine a business director would
- just use one tire over others at the current state of affairs. I
- would guess that Continental or Michelin would pick this one up
- because they are the two big European firms that have taken a great
- interest in racing.
-
- > I have ridden a pair of Contis for over 5 months, no flats, no
- > problems. (They were pretty dead when I changed them, though).
-
- Your testimonial is a bit ambivalent. What was the measure by which
- they were "pretty dead". How many miles did you get on the rear
- tire?
-
- jobst_brandt@hplabs.hp.com
-