Tubeless CX tires (now that Hutchinson is out)

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 10, 2014 at 10:17pm

See if you can get any of those Schwalbe Super Swans from your local Giant dealer.  Rocket Ron tread, racing compound and tubless ready.

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Permalink Reply by JBH on January 31, 2014 at 5:06pm

I keep reading that Schwalbe is offering the Rocket Ron and Super Swan in a tubeless ready CX version. Did a search and undercovered this: From Schwalbe: “The Super Swan is a tire that we produce exlusively for
Giant and will not offer in the aftermarket. It is a 700x35c tubeless version of
our old Rocket Ron (HS 406) tread pattern.”

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Permalink Reply by Hobbanero on February 4, 2014 at 4:47pm

Update: I changed from the Slant Six to the Specialized Captain 2Bliss for this season, and more recently, the just available Trigger (file tread) 2Bliss. The Specialized tires hold air better than the Slant Six does. The Captains are 34c, and the Triggers are 33c stated, but I have not measured them. They are hard to mount...I had to resort to tire levers. This is on my Enve rims, which I could not get Clement LAS tires to hold air on.

I ran the Captains at 28psi front/ 31 rear, and I weigh 180 lbs.

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Permalink Reply by andrew on February 4, 2014 at 5:01pm

we're really sad the Captains went away. That width and tread was quite good.

The Hutchinsons are back by the way! 

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Permalink Reply by Kris Fleming on February 4, 2014 at 6:29pm

Andy, as of last week Specialized listed the Captains in 2Bliss and non-2Bliss. Are they definitely going away?

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Permalink Reply by andrew on February 4, 2014 at 5:02pm

this is an old post but the Hutchinson tubeless tires are back. 

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