Terrene Elwood 650b

[Justin, Oakland]

Anyone tried?

-Justin

[Jon Doyle]

I had a pair on for a bit this year and wrote about it: http://www.gravelbike.com/first-impressions-terrene-elwood-tires/

Terse summarization from my experience: fast, grippy, and comfortable. Difficult to set up tubeless.

On Sunday, May 28, 2017 at 6:40:24 PM UTC-4, Justin, Oakland wrote:

Anyone tried?

-Justin

[Steve Park]

I have some miles on the Light version.  Fast, grippy and comfortable is about right.  Think Switchback Hill plus little knobs.  Mine measure 48mm on a 21 internal width rim tubeless.   These tires were easy to set up tubeless with a floor pump.  They did not weep sealant or lose air.  

I see the Elwood as a special purpose tire for more rugged dirt adventure.  I prefer the SBH as the daily tire because the SBH is more fun on roads and handles almost all my local terrain non-mtb.

[Ray Varella]

It looks very similar to a Schwalbe Thunder Burt in a bit smaller size. 

Steve, does it differ in size much from the SBH tires?

Thank you,

Ray

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:21 PM Steve Park <stev...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have some miles on the Light version.  Fast, grippy and comfortable is about right.  Think Switchback Hill plus little knobs.  Mine measure 48mm on a 21 internal width rim tubeless.   These tires were easy to set up tubeless with a floor pump.  They did not weep sealant or lose air.  

I see the Elwood as a special purpose tire for more rugged dirt adventure.  I prefer the SBH as the daily tire because the SBH is more fun on roads and handles almost all my local terrain non-mtb.

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[Steve Park]

I saw a review that likened the Elwood tread to the Clement MSO, and I agree with that because the middle knobs' spacing is similarly tight.  Though the Elwood has more effective shoulder knobs than the MSO.  I have no experience with Thunder Burt, but it may be similar in that it is a fast rolling knobby.

The SBH is the slightest bit wider, maybe a millimeter. The size difference really is that the Elwood has knobs that extend at the shoulder whereas the SBH is perfectly round.  This matters, for example, in that my cx bike just fits a SBH, but the Elwood doesn't fit because the knobs stick out a tiny bit at just the wrong spot for that bike.

[Steven Frederick]

I was pretty sold on the Elwood for my next gravel bike (my current one won't fit it) but the new Panaracer SK in 650bX48 looks interesting as well.  I wish they made the Schwalbe G-one in this size-it's either a 40mm or like 60mm...
it would make a great, fast back tire coupled with the Elwood or SK up front for more cornering bite...

Steve

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[satanas]

I'd like to think a 50mm G-One might appear in August at Eurobike; they've got 40, 60 & 70mm now, so there's a hole in the lineup. Quite a few CF forks will only clear ~50mm; three I asked about all claim to be ~60mm between the blades.

Still, the choices are increasing rapidly. At ~50mm we've got SBH, 2x WTB tyres, 2x Clement, various Schwalbe Marathons and "54mm" knobbies like the TB, Elwood, the SK above and no doubt more to debut at this year's shows, plus others from Maxxis, etc.

It's like Plus tyres. This time in 2015 there were three tyres, not all of which were available, and now there are probably dozens. :-)

Later,
Stephen