{"id":8229,"date":"2011-04-06T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2011-04-06T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T01:56:22","slug":"scorcher-ty-2gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":"Scorcher TY-2GT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got three new tyres. This time I chose to go with the <a href=\"http:\/\/greenspeed.com.au\/gsparts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenspeed Kevlar Lines Scorchers<\/a>. So far my findings are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">They, like thier unarmoured cousins, give a much nicer ride than the small, hard, Schwalbe Marathon Plus.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">I was able to put the tyres on with out tyre leavers for the first time in my life. They tyres are a little bigger makin them easier to put on the rim.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">I need to get a better pump. Iwas only able to pump them up to 35 psi. (This is not really about the tyre.) (I did get a new pump, a <a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=8261\">cyclair<\/a> and a replacement for my old one that was stolen).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Unlike the Scorchers and like the Marathon Plus tyres, they have a reflective rim. I have not yet tested this in the dark.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">I have had one flat that was very easy to fix. It was caused by reusing an old tyre with a couple of patches and that one of those patches failed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I have not found that I have noticably less grip with the slicks. The famed Sheldon Brown says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheldonbrown.com\/tires.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tread on bicycle tyres<\/a> is a waste of time. And the times I have had wheel slip had always been uphill on wet surfaces and also been with the Marathons as they are the tyre I have used most. I&#8217;ll keep an eye on this issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">16&#8243; x 1-1\/2&#8243; (40-349) Greenspeed &#8220;Scorcher&#8221; slick tyre, with\u00a0 Kevlar belt, 40-100 psi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/5572397512\/sizes\/l\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8230\" title=\"2011_03_30_Scorcher_2\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011_03_30_Scorcher_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/5571808315\/sizes\/l\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8231\" title=\"2011_03_30_Scorcher_1\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011_03_30_Scorcher_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got three new tyres. This time I chose to go with the Greenspeed Kevlar Lines Scorchers. So far[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44,77,1602,1613,3226,3356,3871],"class_list":["post-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gt3","tag-16-inch","tag-40-349","tag-greenspeed","tag-gt3","tag-scorcher","tag-slick","tag-tyre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}