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Stan's, Specialized Enduro Pro, and Me: An Introspective III (1 post)
|  Stan's, Specialized Enduro Pro, and Me: An Introspective III | tankhead10
Aug 10, 2002 10:38 PM | | Wed, Thr, and Fri I spent camping in a cabin in Jim Thorpe PA to mountain bike. The terrain here is ROCKY not like Ringwood NJ where they are big and stuck in the ground. In Jim Thorpe there are scattered loose and stuck rock gardens for some times a whole mile section of trail. The Lehigh River created the majority of mini-mountains with elevations from 0-close to 2000 ft of tightly packed relatively close together "mountains". For some of you this seems rather small but they are strangely enough STEEP. BIG Coal country back in the 1800's. I went there with my buddy who is a cross country coach and 10 of his runners. My intent was to train for more climbing power and to test some of the new products: mainly Stan's reliability. I remounted the Specialized Enduro Pro (which gave me absolutely no problems holding air and did not loose air the whole trip)and went up to Thorpe. The first ride was no big deal, I took the cross country team up a moderate straight fire road climb (6mile)and then I ripped down the mountain at 25-30mph. Everthing was great. But the second ride of the day I did a 2.5 hour rock fest climb and rock garden infested trail called "Twin Peaks". I started lol on some parts of the ride because I was simply amazed that A) I was riding this terrain without tubes and B) The Specialized Enduro's literally lick, bite, and suck the rock. I was very pleased with the high volume sticky casing and the ability to just absorb sooo much of the hits of the rock on my ti hardtail. The second day was much of the same. I took the kids for a training run and then did my second ride on a new trail called "American Standard" Yet one of the more challenging rides in the area. 15 miles:6.9mph average: 2.5 hours of climbing TIGHT and rocky singletrack. Again the tires handled just incredibly. The last morning I took the kids up "Flagstaff Mountain" and climbed it twice and bombed downhill 2x. The second time down when I was going 34mph over loose rock I started hearing flip, flip, flip, flip. The slower I went the slower it got so I figured it was on the wheel. When I got back to camp I checked things out and the side knobbies were ripped from the casing. Some of them where just holding on and that's what was making the noise. Disappointed I went to the LBS who is a Spec dealer. He told me to call them and they will replace the tires. They should not do that. He said that it happens infrequently with a production run where the tires might have a tendency to do that and that since I bought them through Specialized.com that I should have no problem having a new set sent to me. Just an FYI tanks for your time. |
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