{"id":4342,"date":"2021-08-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2021-08-09T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:02:24","slug":"schwalbe-big-apple-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/schwalbe-big-apple-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"Schwalbe Big Apple Tires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a love letter to Schwalbe<\/a>. I love their Big Apple bike tires. If you have a mountain bike that is going to serve most of its life pounding the pavement these are for you. My Redline 29er<\/a> mountain bike does 95% of its miles on the pavement, and it does it on Big Apples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’re big and fat so you keep the same look and level of comfort, it just lowers the rolling resistance because you’ll sound less like a jeep driving down the highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changing tires has an immediate and apparent affect on how your bike handles. The same thing goes for toy cars<\/a> and full-sized ones<\/a>. It doesn’t matter if it’s 2-wheels or 4, those little patches of rubber are the only thing connecting you to the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Big Apples<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I got my son a set to put on his Haro Flightline<\/a>. We’re going on some longer rides this summer – mostly on Minnesota’s expansive network of paved bike trails. He doesn’t have the luxury (or allowance) of keeping a separate road & mountain bike like dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a relatively quick change (~30 minutes) to go back to stock tires if we’re going to head out to the single track trails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big Apple equipped Haro Flightline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

He did 25 miles with ease on this setup:<\/p>\n\n\n

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He also was our lead out man<\/a> for most of a 28 mile ride on the Heartland Trail. They really help him roll fast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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3 out of 4 bikes on this trip used Schwalbe tires \ud83d\ude0d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Brand Loyalty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Because of my great experience with Schwalbe, when it came time buy studded tires<\/a>, I went for the (terribly expensive) Ice Spiker Pros. They cost more per tire than the snow tires on my Subaru<\/a>. But I wasn’t concerned about quality because I knew from my past experience it was going to be great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also got a set of Schwalbe Marathon Racer<\/a> tires for my Cross Check road bike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My only gripe is that I wish they were cheaper, especially for the smaller sizes. I want to get a set of Big Apples for my cargo trailer<\/a> – but they’d cost more than the trailer itself! But I can’t complain – whenever I buy their products it’s money well spent. \ud83d\udcb8<\/p>\n
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This is a love letter to Schwalbe. I love their Big Apple bike tires. If you have a mountain bike that is going to serve most of its life pounding the pavement these are for you. My Redline 29er mountain bike does 95% of its miles on the pavement, and it does it on Big… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Schwalbe Big Apple Tires - a love letter \u2764\ufe0f","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[153,92,184],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-casual","tag-29er","tag-biking-with-kids","tag-cross-check"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t