Tension loss ? (i.e. Tour Bite 1.25 etc.)

[Myrko]

I really enjoyed Solinco Tour Bite 16L / 1.25mm in my Wilson Blade Pro v8 16x19, which with the stiff string and the soft racket is a match made in heaven and plays and feels amazing.

Unfortunately no other string has lost tension so dramatically ever and made the feeling very mushy and uncontrollable quickly (much quicker than other strings I played so far (Confidential, Hyper-G, 4G mainly).

First question: Is this to be expected with Tour Bite 1.25? (in this YouTube they agree on the quick tension loss of Tour Bite in the Blade Pro).

Thing is that the String Compare Tool lists Tension Loss for Tour Bite 16L at 25, which is still quiet good (compare Alu Power at 47). Hyper-G and Confidential also around 25, but that does not make sense to me. So these number don't seem to be very accurate or predicting tension loss!?

 

[1HBHfanatic]

-TB is an old gen. poly,
-TB was/is durable and with good bite on the ball, but tension loss is to be expected
-the " Confidential, Hyper-G, 4G " are next gen. in comparison
-thusly they have better tension maintenance
-check out tecnifiber.ice.code, and or other tecnifiber strings

 

[Myrko]

-check out tecnifiber.ice.code, and or other tecnifiber strings

Is the stiffness comparable to Tour Bite or Tourna Silver 7 Tour? Or is it softer?

 

[fuzz nation]

I really enjoyed Solinco Tour Bite 16L / 1.25mm in my Wilson Blade Pro v8 16x19, which with the stiff string and the soft racket is a match made in heaven and plays and feels amazing.

Unfortunately no other string has lost tension so dramatically ever and made the feeling very mushy and uncontrollable quickly (much quicker than other strings I played so far (Confidential, Hyper-G, 4G mainly).

First question: Is this to be expected with Tour Bite 1.25? (in this YouTube they agree on the quick tension loss of Tour Bite in the Blade Pro).

Thing is that the String Compare Tool lists Tension Loss for Tour Bite 16L at 25, which is still quiet good (compare Alu Power at 47). Hyper-G and Confidential also around 25, but that does not make sense to me. So these number don't seem to be very accurate or predicting tension loss!?

If a full bed of TB is turning the corner too drastically for you, I'd say try it in a hybrid with a cross like Gosen OGSM 16. This syn. gut seems to be a terrific option for a cross string in a poly hybrid because it's pretty slippery and also one of the more durable syn. guts around. It also retains some resilience for longer than lots of polys. It's cheap, too!!

While I don't think this hybrid will triple the life span of your string bed compared with using a full bed of TB, it could let you get more out of each new setup before it becomes unplayable for you. And bonus points if it lets you use up your TB at half the rate of consumption that you're seeing now.