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Panaracer Tyres And Punctures

  • 19-05-2010 12:55pm
    #1
    griffin100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else use these? I've got them on my TT bike / Carbone SL's and I've been plagued with punctures - averaging one every couple of hundred kms. Despite close examination of the tyre and rim no apparent cause can be found. All were little pin prick holes in various locations around tube. I bought these tyres on the recomendation that they had better puncture resistance than Michelin Lithion which I have on my other wheels and on which I've never had a puncture. Has anyone else got this problem with them?

    Now I've found this review http://road.cc/content/review/17083-panaracer-closer-700x23c-folding-tyre which seems to suggest that its a problem with these tyres. I ride on country roads so I would be riding over gravel and twigs regularly enough, and I'm not exactly light.

    I'm probably going to switch over to Michelin Lithion but before I do any suggestions for a decent race tyre with good puncture resistance.


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  • #2
    godihatedehills
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭godihatedehills


    Panaracers are really currrappp....try Continental GP4000S. Nice balance of puncture resistance and speed.


  • #3
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    godihatedehills wrote: »
    Panaracers are really currrappp....try Continental GP4000S. Nice balance of puncture resistance and speed.

    My friend Martyn disagrees, he says they are one of the best tyres he has raced on. I'm sure he meant the extremes though.

    +1 for continental GP4000.


  • #4
    griffin100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭griffin100


    Cheers for that. A certain person in a weel known bike shop is going to have some explaining to do:D


  • #5
    jwshooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    i had panaracers stradius sport on my bike , i had to take them off plagued with punctures ,i had 5 in a few weeks .
    i have gatorskins on this few months and only one , a big black thorn ,so not the tyres fault there .


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