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You have any real world experience with the Continental Contact Urban yet?
I just ordered some for my bullitt, as I love them on my dad bike, and would be interested to know the sidewalls are up to snuff.
I should say I use the Bullitt for carrying my two-year-old mostly.
MisterMikkel-
I think they’ll do great. They lasted when I trialled them on a few pedal me’s (urban arrow XL) that were at the time tearing through Big Ben and big apple sidewalls on a weekly basis almost (50+ bikes in the fleet so a single failure a week isn’t toooo crazy lol)
I’ve got a set of CCUrban on my omnium too.
MCamb
yeah, its low- you would x2 75kg if using the same tyre front and back (unless you were riding a unicycle.. )
Looking at tyre manufacturers specs the max load always goes down as the wheel / tyre gets smaller. bit counter productive as generally speaking the wheel itself gets inherently stronger and can handle heavier loads the smaller it gets.
Also anecdotally when I was working on repairing cargo bikes the sidewall failures would always happen on the larger tyres, which supposedly have a higher max load.
inquired with Conti and they said something about 'max load' also being influenced by wear rate, as in there are more revolutions to cover the same distance with smaller tyres, so if you exceed the max load then your tyre tread will have a shorter service life.
tl:dr- take the manufacturers spec with a grain of salt, choose reasonable quality tyres with strong sidewalls, keep your tyres pumped up and you'll be alright i reckon :)