Bicycle winter tyre without spikes? - Testing Continental Topcontact Winter
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- Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2017
- Here is my new winter tyres. Continental Topcontact Winter. In this video I'm going to test them in very slippery condition with my Azub Max recumbent bike. See how well they perform.
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best winter tyre review ever. Usually one finds only videos from UK where winter means rainy season and temp above 0 celcius
Thank you very much for posting this Saukki!!! I was wondering about this tire and now after seeing your video, I am definitely going to get one for my WAW velomobile. This definitely convinced me seeing you ride over all the different surfaces and still have pretty good grip.
Those are impressively grippy tires! Thanks for doing a demo and review. I would never have guessed from the stability of the bike how your shoe would slip on the pavement.
You may not have studded tires but your nerves are made of steel🙃 A very useful video for those who must travel on their bikes during the winter months. Great job, Saukki!!
Very well done video. Thank you for posting it.
I had been riding snow covered sanded roads with normal cheap mountain bike tires for years. I also avoided the gravel roads with packed snow and refrozen slush. These Continentals would be better for sanded roads but I invested in Schwalbe Marathons and Ice Spikes for my Gravel and Mountain Bike for two reasons. First it is insurance against hitting that patch of black ice during normal road riding. It is a statistical chance thing that I also worry about with my car on rural back roads after sunset when melt water refreezes. The second reason is that the studs open up the gravel roads with packed snow and icy ruts. Side note: I found filling the tires up to at least 80 percent of max pressure gives much better handling in icy ruts, a faster ride and much quieter. The community seems to push riding these with low pressure but they should really try much higher pressure rather than following the crowd.
Those conditions are exactly, what we usually get around here in the winter. Good to know, there are alternatives to spiked tires, which are overkill here except on the two or three days we get with black ice.
I liked the video, great :) now I will definitely take "Continental Topcontact Winter" and will ride in the city in winter. and I want the same bike...
I am really surprised you are cycling in that kind of slippery conditions! I am a weenie and stop cylcling when temperatures go near 0 C.... Very impressive!
Great video. Thanks for a very impressive review.
Nice Vlog Saukki, I'm amazed that the tires you are using are so grippy and do not have spikes on them.Looks like they were a good purchase.
Yes, these are suprisingly good tyres. I purached one for the rear tyre of the Quest a year ago, and now I decided to buy another one so I could use them on this "winter bike", because I decided not to ride the Quest during winter.
Thanks for the review. Studless bicycle winter tires could be a good all round solution then, if one doesn't want to change tires often.
Terve! I just ordered my very first winter tires - Continental Contact Spike 240 size 37mm. I usually ride 28 to 32 mm tires but I want those few extra mm of width for extra grip in slippery ruts. Let's see how it goes!
That's interesting....cool video ....thanks. ..
Ive driven these for a 1 month now. Really bad on ice surface. Have fell twice already. Going back to schwalbe studs.
These are better on ice than any summer tyres.
But I as well fell several times pretty badly last winter with these tyres. But the conditions were the worst. Fresh snow on top of thick ice. These have very good traction on the snow, but the snow was super slippery on top of the ice. These were just wrong tyres for that type of conditions. But I guess it would have been slippery even with most studded tyres.
@@TheVelomobileChannel yes better than summer tyres for sure. i Liked the light weight of the tyre. Cant beat studs. But they come with higher weight and they are noisy
This is interesting! Anxious to hear how soon they wear out and loose their grip. What about the rolling resistance? At least smaller than tires with spikes? By the way - what's your microphone setup - seems to be working well.
Mic setup is Røde Smartlav + iPhone as a recorder. Works quite well outside. But I haven’t yet found a good way to use it inside a velomobile. There is so much noise. For some reason the Sony action cam mic works better inside velomobile.
interesting, might have to get these. been thinking of getting studded tires but they're overkill. I wonder if these Topcontacts will still do well as the tread wears. I also wonder if there's a molecular interaction with the rubber that doesn't create a slippery boundary layer as wax or metal would or if it's simply a softer compound that allows it to stay grippy.
just found this regarding special rubber that sticks to ice (used for shoes): gearjunkie.com/vibram-arctic-grip-sole-for-ice
Kiitos tästä arvioinnista! Mahtaako näillä pärjätä työmatkoilla 10km suuntaansa (melko hyvin hoidettua kevliä), vai pitääkö sittenkin harkita MaraWintereitä...? Nämä voisi omaan hybridiin olla kokeilemisen arvoiset kun ei jaksaisi sitä nastojen ropinaa kuunnella ja nämä varmaan rullaakin paremmin.
Kyllä varmasti pärjää. Hyvin hoidetuilla teillä ja normaalissa talvikelissä pärjää oikein hyvin. Sohjossa pitää vaan olla tarkkana.
Impressive that you can ride in such conditions :-) Do you think they will fit on the Quest Velomobile? I have the Quest XS and are looking at some tires that will get me up some steep hills when I commute to work.
Last winter I had one as a Quest rear tyre. It fits just fine. And it gives more traction than normal summer tyres.
Saukki Thanks, I will get one before it gets to slippery 😊
Did you also try the tires under the quest. I am very interesting in that.
Yes I had one as a rear tyre. It works just fine. Better traction than no-winter tyre. ruclips.net/video/BikQfxB_Xk0/видео.html
Interesting tires indeed. Is the rubber compound softer than in a regular tire?
I think it is. That’s why it works well on low temperatures.
Ive got this 50-584. It work perfect with rim 22,5mm internal width, dt swiss xm401 if I remember corectly.
so on sluch still skidding but nn problem when just roadsbe carefull when dark
I think the slush is a problem because the tyre pattern is quite dense and therefore it's blocking up with the slush.
its almost look like a car tyre looks good
hi what size are those
The other one is 50-559 and another is 55-559.
This is the absolute worst weight distribution position you could posibly think of to drive in the winter on a bike... Im surprised you dont fall more often. This is a great position to do like.. cyclotouring on a dry road, but not to handle ice and snow drifting...
wimschermer.blogspot.be/2013/02/ijzel-en-sneeuw-bandentest-continental.html here is also a test to compare the force needed to make different tyres slip.