Best Bike Tires
The Continental Gatorskin wire bead road tire is made with DuraSkin polyamide fabric to ensure excellent sidewall protection without compromising weight or ride quality Smooth in the center and grippy on the shoulders, this durable road bicycle tire provides superior cornering in any condition Designed for bike commuting, cycle touring and serious cycing training. Known around the world for it's legendary puncture protection and durability.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I have been riding Armadillo tires a lot recently but the Specialized web site started giving me grief so I thought I'd try these Gatorskins which have a similar flat-proof reputation. Final Update: 4500 miles - one flat from a roofing nail - starting to wear out on the rear wheel. We were driving home along the I70 in Colorado when the Thule mount holding $12,000 worth of bicycles failed and my wife's $2,000 carbon bike got towed down the freeway at 80mph."
"UPDATE. The front tire shows no sign of wear and Continental did replace this tire after talking with supervisor of person who answered phone."
"I have had zero issues with these riding on the flat in Florida on the road ( have not taken this set off road)."
"As I have a defective hoop that seems to be too small, the Gatorskin is the only tire of the half dozen or so that I've tried, that actually fits."
"Already put in a few hundred miles and still haven’t gotten any flats, even when riding on unpaved roads or some moderately rough terrain where glass and rocks could be found."
"I've bought a couple of road bikes now and I always wind up letting the stock tires pop from random shards of glass in the city streets and then I order one of these to replace it."
"They ride reasonably well, but seem to be just a bit less grippy when descending fast than I'd like - that's why they get the four stars instead of five."
"The first day out I picked up a goats head thorn in the first three miles and had to repair a flat on the trail."
26 inch tire with large knobs and micro gnarled tread provides great grip for the streets or the dirt. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Paired them with the Sunlite Bicycle Tubes (would stay away from the Slimes tubes if possible). Install was relatively easy - it is a 3 in a scale of 1-10 (with 1 being easiest). Definitely recommend this tires for those looking to upgrade their mountain bike tires to comfort tires. Read a lot of comments about the difficulties a lot of people have put the tires on so I decided to add some pics and instructions. At this point, the tire is just around the tube - not push in yet. Just keep pushing the tire into the rim and going around the whole tire until ALL one side of the tire is in. Again start from the valve and start pushing in the tire into the rim."
"First, Sasquatch pay full price."
"The numbers may not seem to have a big difference, but the tread are a lot smaller and the tire is smoother."
"were a bit hard to mount since they come flat and takes a bit to get them to look like a tire, I did have to replace both tubes which were too big after removing from old mountain bike ( wally world 60 dollar womans 15 speed) these pump up 20 pounds more than the stock tires although I did not think the rim would hold the pressure,,but these seem super tough."
"It was difficult to get them fully around the rim (like most bike tires) Was pleasantly surprised to see it has a puncture proof layer inside the tire."
"These seem to be perfectly functional tires, with a decent amount of tread."
"Good smooth riding tires, but as others have stated, they do not say Schwinn on them."
"Tire was as expected."
The proven cornerstones of the 4000 s ii remain unchanged: Vectran breaker for unsurpassed puncture protection, Black Chili compound for low rolling resistance and sensational grip - handmade of course in Germany. Updated Black Chili tread compound with carbon nano particles delivers 26% lower rolling resistance, 30% more grip and 5% longer mileage, plus it's self-cleaning.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have three bikes and two of them have Conti 4000 S, and my third bike the new version 4000 S II. This is a long lasting tire."
"Every time winter rolls around we have these insanely oily streets with the occasional black ice patches. They roll fast, absorb ALOT of road jargon and seem decent regarding puncture protection. If you're a fast commuter such as myself these will help you maintain higher speeds over rough city roads and long distances. If you live in a city that accumulates oil in the streets valley style, you may want something with a different grip tactic than a premium compound and contact patch theory. At lower psi's (80ish) these tires start to drag despite the rolling resistance test I reviewed before buying them."
"Feels like you're riding on glass, or somebody is holding the back wheel up off of the ground."
"Pricey, but the lowest rolling resistance of any tire you can actually ride for training+racing, rather than just racing-only."
"My favorite clincher tire."
"Great Rolling Resistance....about as good as you can possibly get for an everyday tire. There are tires that are nearly as good for much less. Ultimately this has been a great tire so far."
"Actually removed the 28c GP Race Sport tires that came stock with my bike and put these on."
"Ran the 23mm version and I will admit that the tire rolls well but I've gotten 2 sidewall tears on these."
Best Bike Tubes
Put the Continental 26" presta valve tubes in your deep profile rims to shed some grams and keep the air in your tires. Mold-cured and vulcanized for uniform roundness and improved reliability at the valve stem insertion.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I only buy Conti tubes now."
"nice tubes, i have read alot of negative revews on these tubes yea there maid in china , i have used them for years and years and have ride thousonds of miles on them an countless tours and i have never yet seen one faulty out of the box or had an issue with one !"
"This happened several months again and I haven't had any more flat tires since then, which shows reasonable durability of this product already, and it will likely last a good while longer."
"These are a basic item for cyclists and this brand is as good as any."
"The threaded design of the stem with stop nut like presta stems seems to prevent getting a separation (and flat)."
"Continental makes the best standard tubes in my opinion."
"Its more like a 1.75" than a 2.5" inner tube- works fine but there's definitely some empty space in side the tire when installing it unless you run the pressure up a bit."
"Reinforced rubber at stem caused a little rise in tire tube."
Best Bike Tire Repair Kits
1.5 2 2.5 3 4 5 6 8 10mm Hex Wrench Set. Freehub Lockring tool for Shimano / some Campagnolo bottom brackets. Bottom Bracket Tool installation and removal of Shimano Hollowtech II external B.B. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This tool kit is great and has most of the bicycle repair/maintenance tools you'll ever need. It doesn't have some of the specialty tools I like to have, like a crown race tool or headset press tool; but all the essentials are there to do a pretty complete rebuild, if you like. I only used this bike tool kit to complete the entire swap. My take on the kit: The tool box and trays are built extremely well. It being in the center is going to help in rigidity of the entire box, as well as hold some of your heavier tools that the kit comes with. The bottom of the box is integrated with foam inserts to hold some of the specialty tools the kit comes with (nice addition)."
"Every tool box I own has a hole under the tray handle which allows small tools to fall through. I'm still learning what some of the specialized tools are for with the newer hubs and bottom brackets but was able to fix a friends creaky suspension bike with one of the spline tools. This does not contain a freewheel remover for my vintage 1970, 1980 bikes and does not contain a freewheel or freehub tool to remove whatever off brand it is on my new Schwinn Mountain Bike. If you go to the Bikehand website, you will see that they are a bicycle Tool company in Taiwan dedicated to making Bike tools. I would like to see all of their tools become more readily available in the US and give the overpriced Park tools some competition. Also purchased a Parks Y type Allen wrench tool which handles 85% of all Allen key needs. Had to buy Park Tools Spanners, SPA-1, -2 and the yellow one Along with the Bike Hand Lock ring removal tool to work on vintage bottom brackets. All the Bike Hand Tools are holding up fine, especially the Pedal Removal wrench. The Cable Cutting Tool works fine."
"It makes it great for throwing everything in the car and having virtually every thing I could possibly need at my finger trips on a bike trip."
"outside of that, this tool box not only has what you need, it's a REALLY good price compared to some other tool makers out there *cough*park tools*cough*....and the tool box itself is sturdy and has a place for everything and everything in it's place."
"Overall great tool set for an amateur bike mechanic."
Best Decorative Bicycle Valve Capss
"Letter Pattern" DAWAY A08 bike wheel light, It will flash 4 different letter patterns, patterns change every 4 seconds. When bike moves at night or moves in dark area, DAWAY A08 led bicycle wheel light will light intelligently. When bike stop or at daytime, bike wheel lights will be off within 1 minute. Daway a08 led bike valve stem light has five styles to be selected. If you select graphics pattern bike tire lights, when you are riding, 15 kinds of different graphics change once every 3 seconds. Daway a08 led bicycle wheel light uses 2 in 1 interface design, whether the valve of your bike is Presta valve or Schrader valve, whether your bike is mountain bike, road bike, kid’s bike or ordinary bike, this bike valve cap light can be perfectly matched.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"He's getting a new bike for Christmas this year and I thought I'd grab some accessories and this was one."
"My daughter put it on her bike and she just loves it."
"These lights dramatically improve my bike's visibility at night, especially from the side."
"They are great for bikes or anything with wheels."
"Can’t wait for my son to see his tire light up."
"We really needed something to make my daughter's bike catch attention before we would let her ride it at night."
"This is pretty cool!"
"My daughter loves this light on her bike tire!"