This is awesome good on you man. My least favorite thing about triathlon is that it's an elitist sport and with all these other posts about what gimmick to spend your money on, these type of posts are the best. Getting paid to train as a bike messenger isn't all bad either.

Nice. But, we need bigger pics of the bike rig. :-)

there are some other folks I am hoping to awaken with a post like this. Pro athlete Thomas Grelach also is a part of the car free life.... true adoption of "that triathlon life". So if anyone has similar to share, please do! (It helps me in my bike infrastructure advocacy - when car drivers say they NEED a car to do certain things in an urban area)

This reminded me of a sight seen at a construction site in the city the other day... They had a fleet of electric bikes hooked to trailers piled up with boxes and bins of stuff. Too heavy for a normal bike, but the e-bike approach made it doable. Struck me as a cool/efficient way to move equipment around at the start/end of day.

What psi do you have to put in the tires to keep them from going flat when riding with a couple 50lb bags of cement?

I think he runs solid airless tires.

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https://www.strava.com/...tes/zachary_mckinney

This. 115 psi model of tannus tires

You mean like driving my kids somewhere when its rains?

I see parents drive their kids 2 blocks to their school (400m), in nice weather..

Reminds me of my visits to Asia. There was a guy on a bike also carrying about 20 propane tanks, a family all on one bike, guy with an extension ladder. When it’s your means of transportation, you find a way. You’ve got me thinking about taking my bike for various short trips instead of driving.

I'm telling myself that if I can maintain 2x/week of bike commuting (35 mins each way at 20+mph while moving), I'll gift myself a pair of those Tannus tires so I don't have to carry a flat kit on the commute. We'll see if it happens.

bike commute life, you schedule yourself with room for mishaps for your ETA. So the tires lower possibility of a problem but yea wont be as fast. People find me annoying when I ask for exact times when I meet them, cause not many people put in room for error in their commutes - and think they can make up time just by driving faster.

How much slower would you say they are in your experience? I saw the web estimates that it's like a Gatorskin, but seems like it should be more

It’s sobering to watch how making do with a bike as only transportation immediately devolves into a threat about lowest tire rolling resistance....
and not on the actual relevant issues (tech reliability, theft prevention, clothing, etc).

Bike advocacy or bike culture has a long road ahead. Many flats included.

I commuted by bike 3 to 5 days a week for about 4 years (10 miles each way). I used heavy touring tyres, but on a converted mountain bike from the mid 90’s, so speed wasn’t the aim of the game! In that time I punctured twice, but only once whilst riding - the other time the tyre went flat during the day at work. My flat kit consisted of a mini pump, tube and two tyre levers all taped together. It lived in my pack. I even took my flat kit on a few 20 mile trail runs, not realising I hadn’t taken it out! It’s only 5 mins to change a tube if you do puncture whilst riding, so in my opinion, not worth going to solid tyres.

LOL - guys like you take all the fun out of the room.

All the stuff you mentioned are literally irrelevant for me (tech reliability, theft prevention, clothing, etc.) - I have solutions for ALL of those, and they all work 100% well.

If this were a noob or different nonracing culture site, it'd be different, but come on man, this is ST!

And to be fair, rolling resistance literally IS the limiting factor with solid tires. If they had less rolling resistance than tubes or tubeless, they would literally be the dominant technology for wheels.

See: DC Rainmaker.

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what about him? I wish he or someone similar would do a review on the tires. Yes for me, they are similar to gatorskin in résistance (the middle psi model). The low psi model great for the potholes I have to deal with at work. The high psi model tends to melt and get sticky in warmer weather.

As you can see my bike is just a $200 bike. I had a few stolen before, and the more the value the more emotional pain. I have a very good chain, but give thieves more time and they will cut whatever lock device you have

It was directed at the guy suggesting that kids will melt in the rain. You don't strike me as that type. I'm actually intrigued by the Tannus tires. I'm not worried about watts on my commuter.

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