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Gamma Zo Tour Rough 16 vs Solinco Tour Bite 17

Tour Bite 17 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Tour Bite 17 is 10 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gamma

Zo Tour Rough 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Solinco

Tour Bite 17

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18754th pct
18148th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4987th pct
4986th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8628th pct
8522nd pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
6.180th pct
6.383rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.50580th pct
0.49977th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08331st pct
0.07921st pct

Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.

Which one wins, by problem

Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.

Swapping between them: what tension?

Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.

Coming from Zo Tour Rough 16 at 52 lb

String Tour Bite 17 at 54.1 lb 24.5 kg

Coming from Tour Bite 17 at 52 lb

String Zo Tour Rough 16 at 50.6 lb 23.0 kg

Hybrid: what if you used both?

Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.

Zo Tour Rough 16 mains / Tour Bite 17 crosses

Stiffness52nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss87th pct · 1 measured
Energy return26th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential81st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite79th pct · 1 measured
String friction29th pct · 1 measured

Tour Bite 17 mains / Zo Tour Rough 16 crosses

Stiffness50th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss87th pct · 1 measured
Energy return24th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential83rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite77th pct · 1 measured
String friction24th pct · 1 measured

Open this in the hybrid builder

Which goes dead first?

Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.

Zo Tour Rough 16

~14 hours of play

Tour Bite 17

~14 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gamma Zo Tour Rough 16 Polyester16find18749866.10.5050.083
Solinco Tour Bite 17 Polyester17$13.9918149856.30.4990.079

Add a third string Zo Tour Rough 16 in full Tour Bite 17 in full