Schwalbe Hans Dampf Review

The every condition’s mountain-bike tire, are tubeless ready with a non-directional move pattern, and uses their tough SnakeSkin sidewalls, and was fashioned for dry and lax or dewy and rooty and stony terrain. The tires use their Triple Star foam bilobed design, specifically the TrailStar version (High Performance Trail Ride Compound). I hit been thrashing a ordered of Hans Dampf’s, which roughly translates to “jack-of-all-trades”, on and off for six months, and they’re a beatific every around ring with superior durability. One of the enthusiastic aspects of this ring is there do it every character, and the outmost knobs don’t requirement to be pronounceable over quite as far to hook up while cornering and steering. The 2.35-inch tires become in both a 26 and 29er versions.

Schwalbe Hans Dampf Schwalbe free the sticky TrailStar var. of the Hans Dampf at Sea Otter last year, and then at Interbike, they pronounceable out two newborn versions, a interbreed country familiarised PaceStar Compound (harder var. of the Triple Star Compound series) and a azygos bilobed Performance series, and the tires retail for $90, $90, $49 respectively.

The ring utilizes a nylon artifact casing, and is constructed with three plies of 67 tpi low the tread, and two plies on the sidewalls. The sidewall has an added cross-hatched Snakeskin endorsement layer, to protect against cuts and abrasions, which greatly process their shout quotient. The TrailStar is comprised of a base layer, which provides knob unchangeability and beatific rolling properties, and then a medium fleecy foam streaming downbound the edifice knobs for traction, braking and acceleration performance, and finally, a fleecy foam on the lateral knobs for appendage in corners and sport over inauspicious and stony terrain. In addition, the knobs hit sipes (small micro cuts) for meliorate flexibility, braking and grip. They dropped their customary U-Block move organisation on these tires, and instead went to a more “enthusiast” familiarised functional tire, that is non-directional, and easier to corner. It was specifically fashioned for the appliance a nd more theoretical trails of North America.

Hans Dampf Specs:

• MSRP: TrailStar $90, PaceStar $90, Performance $49
• Size: 26×2.35, 29×2.35 (only 26er in Performance)
• Weight: 26er – 760 grams, 29er 850 grams
• Casing: 67 EPI, Snakeskin Sidewall on Star versions
• Compound: TrailStar, PaceStar, Performance
• Tire Bead: Folding
• Tubeless Ready on the Star versions

Testing Rig and Terrain Although I shrive to be objective as doable in every my reviews, tires are somewhat personal, and how they move and impact for me, and my local terrain, makes it every the more difficult. So I try to be too picky, and take deep into their characteristics, and look for strengths and weaknesses in any terrain and conditions. I tested the tires on my Ibis Mojo HD, which has 6 inches of suspension, in any sort of terrain that river crapper throw at you. The investigating terrain is predominantly lax stony conditions, with many long precipitous climbs and descents, sway gardens, slick rock, an irregular uncreased singletrack and lots of ugly lax gravel. In the river Springs area where I ride, we hit Pikes Peak raspy (pea gravel) on most of our trails, and it’s one of the most alarming traction eaters that I hit ever dealt with. Cornering, braking and rise crapper be a warning in humility.

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