Re: Rene Herse "New type of tire"

On 1/8/2025 3:29 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/8/2025 11:36 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 11:02:58 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 1/8/2025 2:34 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

 Indeed it very much looks like some of the more street tyres for MTB’s
you’d see in the 1980’s and so on!

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Like many or most marketers, I think Jan Heine is touting nearly
imperceptible differences.

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On the other hand, there's no such thing as "too many choices."
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-- C'est bon
Soloman

 +1
Either they sell enough at a high enough margin to recover their tooling expense plus some operations profit or that tire will just go away. Like anything else.

I'd be a bit interested in exactly how a small company's "new" tire comes to market.
Obviously, Rene Herse Inc. does not make any parts of the tire. I suspect Jan Heine and crew select from a menu of choices regarding beads, fabrics, perhaps adhesives and whatever else matters regarding the casing. I wonder exactly how those factors differ from other tires - especially the Paselas that I usually use.
I imagine the recipe for tread rubber is also pretty much a menu choice, affecting longevity vs. traction and/or other factors. It sounds like he gets to choose the tread design, so effectively the design of the mold for the tread rubber, which I suppose will be used only for his brand. That cost has to be amortized over the total sales of that model of tire.
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- Frank Krygowski