Originally Posted by
Raleigh71
I hadn't bought any bike tires in years, so when I went looking at the usual sites, i.e. ebay, amazon etc. I noticed that almost none of the usual tire descriptions tell you the weight of the tires. Seems to me the average bloke might want to know how heavy the new tires are, no?
Is this some sort of a new trend among retailers?
Maybe because (within reason) it doesn't matter. I remember years ago at a bike shop in Sacramento, CA, we measured weights of a bunch of tires. The weights were off by 20-40 grams in either direction.
Bottom line, unless you were riding some heavy, stiff, touring tire, it didn't really matter.Pros can't tell the difference in a 20 gram difference. But they can feel the differences in the ride characteristics of different brands and models.