Replica Ritchey Z Max- seems like we´ve been heard!

Be interested in ride quality.

If they look the part then that's great for garage queens, but cheap tyres made with crappy compounds destroy ride quality more than pretty much anything else. Personally I'd like to see modern compounds used to replicate old school tyre designs, best of both worlds, I'd pay top prices for that.

My dream tyre would be Rene herse rubber moulded to look like GCE's
 
They're going to be modern tyre quality with old school tread patterns. He's estimating late 2024/early 2025 for the Z-Max
 
I bought some of the Dutch ZMAX tyres - will report back when they arrive.
Yeah please report back when you get them. Although I would guess you get what you pay for.
I´ve had those similarly cheap Farmer John clones and while they look ok- ish, they´re so ridiculously heavy it´s not even funny (>1kg a tire).
 
Tyres arrived Thursday but only got the chance to look at them now. Steel bead and weight just over 900g each - so about half as much again as a Kevlar bead Panaracer Smoke. Rubber is surprisingly decent and soft. Tread is good. Serviceable but not really anything you would try to compete on - even with yourself and your friends. So @Dr Dremel was right - a little too good to be true but still serviceable for knocking about on or slowing down the youngest.
 
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