Tannus Tyres

I just read this via fb, anyone else heard of or ridden these?

http://www.alicehector.net/review-tannus-tyres/

You can't choose your pressure, which is a real big deal killer.

Perfect on town bikes though, that'd be a perfect market for it.

tried some on a friend's commuter bike they seemed to be pretty darn good for riding.

Brakeless riding and Skidding I dunno yet??? Anyone have any testing on this?

Think I may get a pair to try.

Their gallery is full of lulz

Various types of foam tyre have been tried over many years, and none of them have proved to be as good as proper tyres. With a normal tyre, you've got all the air in the tyre acting as a 'spring', despite the contact patch being small. With tyres like this, you've only got a small amount of closed cell foam near to the contact patch.

This means that the ride quality is dreadful. If you're worried about punctures, just put Marathon Plusses on. Still fairly dead feeling compared to a nice lightweight tyre, but a million times better than foam tyres.

Surely foam tyres is perfect on Dutch bike, no?

If foam tyres were the best tyres for dutch bikes then Shirley more dutch bikes would have foam tyres?

Got shown the catalog for this in a local wrench's place, and spent the next 10 minutes laughing at the pictures in it too. Much funnies.

Debating getting a set of these for my work commute folder mainly due to the reliability of not finding myself stuck at the side of the road with a metric fuckton of tools to carry. If they are any good I may invest in a set for my ss to thrash about on.
The thing is I'm wary about the fitting, but I shall report back if they are decent.

I went to look in the shop advertised on the Facebook page White Church Lane and they're (The Solid Tyre Shop) not there anymore. I was thinking of getting a pair of 28C.

Been fitting some solid tyres to wheelchair wheels for disability rugby people at work recently.

They went on the rim a lot easier then I inagined they might. Still a 2 man job and feel plenty secure once on but not the fight I was expecting.

These ones are branded 'CEW Inc' and 'Shox'.

Wouldn't fancy riding (or sitting on) anything with them fitted though. Totally solid and lifeless feeling plus they're covered in release agent and I can't imagine grip being anything other than horrendous.

There's a few vids online of these solid tyres being fitted onto rims, looks hard work as you say but not impossible. The few riding reviews online I've read are split 50/50 ish it seems. Folk that have got the 23C (one fella measured them to be 21mm at the widest point actually) report they feel 'firm' ride-wise but not as bad as expected. I was hoping the 28c variant might have more boink and not too much drrrrrrrrrrrag. Having pushed my beluvved around in a wheelchair for a while on off through the last 21 years I'm glad to say we've never had a puncture... If only that was the same for my bike! :)

Having a spare wheelset to hand... inquisitiveness got the better of me and I've purchased a pair of these Aither 1.1 tyres in 700 x 28.

Fitting them was a painful experience even though a tool for doing so is supplied in each package. I had a blister on the palm of each hand (stoppit, I know what you're thinking!) from forcing the locating pegs under the bead into the rim. It took me almost 3 hours to do both tyres. There's a knack I'm sure, clearly I haven't got it. Once fitted they grip solidly on the rim but they don't measure 28mm, closer to 25mm according to Mr Vernier.

I took them out for their 1st proper ride yesterday, I wanted to check out the route to my future place of employ nr St Pancras. I reckoned the 45 mile round trip would get us acquainted well enough, it did.

OK, the ride IS harder than I'm used to riding 32C Gatorskins but isn't much firmer than the 25C 'skins on my other SS bike, that make sense? From the ride yesterday I found they're fine for reasonable road surfaces and ace on tarmac'd Cycle paths but do show up road surface changes more than a noomatic tyres. Also, and this takes a bit of getting used to, negotiating painted lines causes a somewhat 'exciting' feeling in that the bike feels like it squirms a bit. It that funny feeling you get when you've got slightly not enough pressure in the rear tyre and you've attempted to corner sharply, it feels like the rear is following it's own trajectory which catches you unaware and you correct your direction by steering rather than leaning less or summat. I got used to it about an hour into the ride. I'm guessing the tyre profile is deforming under load when a side ways force is upsetting the straight-line travel and thats giving the squirmingnynessisms.

I didn't notice much in the way of increase in rolling resistance at first but it did slowly reveal itself after I decided to 'make a day of it' and ride from St Pancras to Wandsworth then back to Dartford. I was clapped out in short. 54 miles turned out to be too far for my limited leg prowess but the upside is that if I continue to ride these sort of distances I will be able to join a local Shot-put team fairly soon, and ride far and fast on my other bike! Whahey!

I'm going to do a few shorter (sub 50 miler) runs and see how we get on together. Ditching almost all tools and pump was a nice feeling as was riding through anything knowing you're never going to puncture is ace given the number of times I got caught out this winter.

6/10 so far. Will not puncture again (on this wheelset).

Sound like it's more idea as a short commuting tyres.

Yeah I agree Ed. I feel I pushed them (and me) too far yesterday.

I've a got a hillyish 14 mile local loop I do thats often covered in glass and that spikey flinty stuff our local Council use to 'grit' the roads throughout winters that's caused me much grief and punctures in the past. Its on this loop that those Tannus tyres will ensure I get my 1 hour workout unimpeded by flats and earn their keep I reckon.

No doubt swapping back to the normal tyre'd bike will make me feel speedy and invincible... until I get a puncture natch :-)

I'm possibly talking to myself here seeing as I don't know anyone else in the world that has also has a pair of these tyres besides me but... if there is... have you noticed them appear a lot softer due to the high weather temperature recently? I'm convinced mine are now Blancmange instead of the Hubba Bubba in the fridge level of hardness they were a few months back.

Maybe the tarmac is softer...
wouldn't surprise me that they would change over a temp range. But then I can't imagine a mere 25 degrees Celsius could really affect them.

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Why not? It is rubber after all.

But then I can't imagine a mere 25 degrees Celsius could really affect them.

I'm guessing but I think its a combo of the air temperature + the surface temperature of the (agreed) softer Tarmac both increasing the tyre rolling temperature which maybe leads to higher rolling resistance and that in itself is only adding to an increase in furthering the tyre temperature itself. Result... makes 'em softer (innits).

Slowest commute ride ever yesterday using them, but that was mostly due to the high amount of peeps riding very slowly on the 1st 1/4 of my journey out of Holborn heading to Silvertown and also me taking it really easy cos it was blummen hot (mum).

I know this is a really old post, but have had 4 punctures this week. Read about these tyres. How are these tyres 2 years later?? Would you recommend?

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