Originally Posted by Wavshrdr
Never said the Apples were lighter. Marathons are heavy. My point was the Apples are fast and comfy. I did coast down testing on my Apples and the Marathons and the Apples beat the Marathons every time by a wide margin. The marathon pluses are tanks but very hard to get a flat.
On my hill (which isn't glass smooth) my Swift did often as good if not better than my bike with Stelvios did. The Stelvios did better when the road was VERY smooth. The rougher the pavement the more the Apples seem to have an advantage.
For a tire comparison see here if you haven't already. Marathons are NOT efficiently rollling tires. Matter of fact at 100PSI few tires were worse than they were.
http://www.discoveryride.com/human/rolling.html
Wav interesting to see how poorly the very high pressure tyres went, and also that the Kevla tyres were slower.
I had two pairs of tyres thrown in in one of my recent purchases, turns out they are Cheng Shin tyres so I will be able to try them out. They were the cheap well performing tyres from Taiwan, looks like I will be saving on more exotic tyres!
