What’s the BRR tire for this month?
Specialized Air Trek Flex Lite 2.35 ?
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Should we wait one more week in the off chance that the new Race King is released at Sea Otter?
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Speaking of Schwalbe, my rear Aspen 170tpi was getting worn down (1000km of use) and I wasn’t feeling like buying new tires, so decided to throw in the previous Racing Ray/Ralph’s for the moment. But this time tried to inflate them to 40psi and leave then 24h like this… It works !
Now after reducing the pressures to the regular ones, the Ralph is 60mm (2.36) and the Ray 59mm (2.32). So, extremely close to nominal, on 30mm rims. Is Schwalbe mentioning this protocol at any of their instructions ?
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maybe a matching 2.4 like the rick
looooots of options: rapid compound, trail casing, grip compound, race casing
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really nice to finally see the successor of the RaceKing. Hopefully it will be as fast. But who the f* came up with these names?? Why not just keep RaceKing - that sounded badass. Dubnital wtf. Anyway. Hope the tire performs. For everything else there’s always a black sharpie
get a vote in once it’s online
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already ordered 
will test on monday (both grip and rapid compound)
Trinotal 2.4 race casing also looking interesting (not because of a fast rolling tire, more as a true XC front tire option ) but in EU its 6-8 week availability…
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The naming is obviously a bit wacky, but perhaps a bit more “normal” in their German headquarters. Options wise, they didn’t leave us wanting much. Two sizes, Two casings, Two compounds, Two colors, and it looks like just about every combination of those possible. I think most impressive to me at this point(without any insights to feel or speed) are the weights… R2 already has some inventory(Black only) and they’re all in the 640g-710g range for the 2.4’s including the heaviest combination “Trail Grip” version. Also, how/why is it that this tire sells for MSRP $70US when a tire 1/4 of the size(GP5000 28mm) sells for $100US?
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I promised myself I would pick up the new Continental tire as soon as it was released… But… They released so many that I am overwhelmed and really not sure what to get!!
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is it common for the tan sidewall to be heavier? R2 shows 692g vs 661g ~5% difference for the rapid/trail 2.4 which is the one they have both available.
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tan sidewall is usually ~10g lighter. They may have gotten a light black and heavy tan??
I am wondering how much difference the Rapid vs Grip compound make, both in terms of traction but also rolling resistance, and where the Black Chili compound on the OG Race King 2.2 Protection compares.
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there used to be the Speed King, Race King, Cross King and Mountain King. I think the Speed King has been discontinued without a replacement and Dubnital corresponds to RaceKing, Trinotal to Cross King and Magnotal replaces Mountain and Trail King.
Fastest combination will probably be double Dubnital and if you want more grip get either Trinotal or Magnotal for the front.
“Tal” means valley in german but the names seem random as they don’t correspond to actual places. I’d have kept the original names but in the world we live everything has to change all the time, so what do I know.
I just realized… the name of the brand is continenTAL and now all their tires are named xyzTAL. That’s… something
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strange that Continental decided to start production with trail casing (2.4) for Trinotal, as the race version will come almost 2 months later, according to R2 and BTD…
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Agreed…Race casing and Rapid grip???
Also:
dub (maybe 2?)
Tri (maybe 3?)
Mag (maybe max?)
When I look at the Dubnital you have these choices;
-Race-Grip
-Race-Rapid
-Trail-Grip
-Trail-Rapid
These are all 3/330 TPI, then on top of that you have black or tan wall… Haha, they really gave you options.. Normally, if a tire manufacture just released (1) I would just grab it and try it, this time around I am more waiting for someone to try these and read reports haha.
If the “trail” shows the same rolling resistance but better flat resistance to the “Race” I would go with that as 50-100g is not as important to me. These are the things that keep me up at night.
My gut is telling me to just get a Race-Grip front and Race-Rapid rear and move on with my life because the 2.4 is what I want and the tread pattern historically has been proven and now with larger lugs should be even better.
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I went ahead and preordered two of the Race-Rapid 2.4’s. Figured start with the fastest and work from there. I’ve got a set of 2.4 Ricks as well sitting here waiting to try and a set of Peyotes from last year that I have barely used. Figured that will be some good options to play around with as the trails dry out this spring.
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I don’t see Dubnital 2.4 on the BRR voting list yet, so will hold off voting this month to see if they add it.
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