While out riding this weekend (all the way up Old Railroad Grade on Mount Tamalpais, down along the ridge trails; outstanding!) I ran into a downhill biker who claimed that the Gazz 24x3.0" was discontinued this week. Has anyone heard anything about this?
[He also said that the Gazz tires pretty much suck for downhill biking, which could explain why.]
Can someone with industry connections confirm whether or not this is true. We had this rumor once before a few years ago and Nokian brought them back.
They're not a great tire for downhill bikes but they are good for the folks riding bikes on the snow. I've been hopeful that the tire would stay around for the snow bikes and for the munis. Some freeriders using hardtail bikes also like the 24x3 Gazz. Not the biggest market but it is a market that really likes the tire.
I'm going to have to check my parts closet. I think I've got 3 spare Gazzs in there.
Gerblefranklin 16 March 2005 10:39:08 [ permanent link ]
john_childs wrote:> *Deja vu all over again.*
Department of redundancies department .
For everything but snow riding and muni, lets face it, the gazz does suck. Ask any serious biker, 99/100 will tell you it's an awful tire. Then again, most 24x3.0 tires are considered crap.
gerblefranklin wrote:> *For everything but snow riding and muni, lets face it, the gazz does> suck. Ask any serious biker, 99/100 will tell you it's an awful tire.> Then again, most 24x3.0 tires are considered crap. *
Depends on what the serious biker is doing. Some serious bikers really do like the 24x3 Gazz. For example, 'GOATBIKE' (http://www.goatbike.com/) really likes the 24x3 Gazz for their bike and the style of riding some are using the bike for.
I recently phone the distrubutor here in South Africa that import nokian tyres (the same distrubutor that import magura) inquiring about the cost on maguras, i also asked about the 24x3" Guz. they said they are out of stock, and wont be getting any more in stock.
Do Nokian know how respected their tyre is in the world of muni?
Maybe it would be worth a few muni-ists e-mailing them, posting some links etc.
From Nokians perspective, if they reckon their 24x3 Gazz tyre is perceived by the customer base as merely a poor downhill tyre, then it's no surprise that they'll discontinue it.
If they're aware that there's a (admittedly relatively small, but growing) market of muni-ists who consider the Gazz to be arguably the best tyre for their sport- then surely they'd be more inclined to continue production?
Some companies do take catering for the unicycle market seriously, an example being Coker.
-- onewheeldave - Semi Skilled Unicyclist
"He's also been known to indulge in a spot of flame juggling - but it's the Muni that really fires him up."
