Thank you to all our customers who have made this project possible! It seems like everybody who asked for all-black tires stepped up to the plate (which isn’t always a given). Many others have come through as well. Shops and our international distributors joined the crowdfunding drive, too.
Most of the all-black tires met their crowdfunding targets. All the others got close, and we’ve decided to move forward with them as well.
Now the all-black tires are on the production schedule, and we expect them to arrive in late June or early July. In the meantime, if you’ve missed out on the crowdfunding or would like to get another set of all-blacks, we’ve added a few extras to the production schedule. You can pre-order them now. Once the extra tires are spoken for, the pre-orders will close.
It’s really fun to do projects this way: It gives you, our customers, a voice in what we make. Our Suggestions Form collects your requests and ideas. The crowdfunding effectively serves as a vote on whether a project is viable or not. And if it is, then we make it.
We’ve got other projects in the works. Right up there with all-black tires have been requests for our revolutionary semi-slicks in the 650B wheel size. (Above is the 700C version on the bike of gravel pro Brennan Wertz.) Right now, we’re figuring out the logistics for ideas that have a longer gestation period. We don’t want to take your money for pre-orders, when the new products in question can’t be delivered for almost a year. Once those logistics are figured out, and we’ve done the preliminary R&D, you’ll see more exciting projects.
Even though there are many great ideas, we’ll continue to move forward at a very deliberate pace. The suggestions come from you, our customers, but it’s our job to make sure every Rene Herse product meets the high standards of quality and performance that you’ve come to expect from us. Listening to customers doesn’t absolve us from the final responsibility for everything we offer.
Our goal is never to be ‘first to market.’ We don’t introduce a new product until we’ve tested it thoroughly and pushed it as far as it can go. Sometimes that can take years, but it means you can trust that our R&D has left no stone unturned. You won’t buy a product that will be supplanted by a ‘new-and-improved’ version in the near future. It’s our job to turn your ideas and suggestions into products that are optimized in every way. Products that we and you can trust—and enjoy on our adventures.
Back to all-black tires… If you’d like to pre-order any of the ‘extra’ tires, please click on the links below.
Knobbies:
Semi-Slicks:
Smooth All-Road Tires:
And if you’ve got ideas for new products, please let us know via our Suggestions Form.