Comments on: Geax Saguaro Tubular 29″er Tires: Mid-Term

By: c_g

c_g — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:41:53 +0000

tim: If my information is correct they should already be available through your national distributor. I have no information on the price though, sorry.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:48:40 +0000

Has Geax indicated when these will be available? I have a set of Edge clinchers that I can’t get to seal for the life of me and I’m thinking of swapping them for the tubular rims. But I’m not going to do that unless there are tyres available other than the Dugast.

By: c_g

c_g — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:07:29 +0000

jason: to my knowledge there are two versions of GEAX´s PIT STOP available:

1, PITSTOP (content 50 ml) which is recommended for tirés 26 x 1.1 to 2.0 (so I´d guess you will need to do some pumbing by hand to get to your desired pressure on any MTB tire).

2. PITSTOP MAGNUM (content 75 ml) which is recommended for tirés 26 x 2.1 to 2.7 (which sounds like the one I´d take out on the trail with me)

I will try to get some, do the pressure test on the tubs and report back – for now I can´t give you a more conclusive answer.

t0m: The 29er tub specific rims dedicated to MTB use that I know of are:

- EDGE composite (Carbon tubular, 32 mm heigth, 24 mm width, ~ 270 g)
- AX-Lightness (Carbon tubular, 28 mm height, 25.5 mm width, ~ 250 to 265 g)
- BOR/FRM (Scandium tubulars, 24 mm width, ~ 340 to 365 g)
- AMBROSIO (alloy tubulars, 24 mm width, 410 to 420 g – the ones on my test configuration)

There might be others around: will gather more details and post them in my final report.

RIDE ON!!

By: t0m

t0m — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:06:04 +0000

Who’s making tubular specific 29″ rims? These make a lot more sense now that I see the potential for extremely low wheel weights. The elite racing crowd will embrace these if they’re light as a package. Not sure if they would for a wheel of the same or more weight.

By: Willie

Willie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:22:38 +0000

The future has arrived! GREAT REPORT!!!!! Seems like it takes the tubeless advantages to the next level. The “only” drawback to 29′rs is the greater rolling mass to accelerate, problem solved!!!
290 tpi, I wonder what a normal tubeless tire might ride like is it had 290 tpi. 120 tpi is the highest that I have seen.
If you program yourself to fell that you are not really pushing hard if you do not get the bottom-out bang, you have a great training aid….
Great Report!!!!!