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Gosen Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) vs Solinco Tour Bite 17

Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) is 10 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

Lumina Spin 16L (1.26)

Polyester · 16L ga

Solinco

Tour Bite 17

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
17845th pct
18148th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
5088th pct
4986th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8628th pct
8522nd pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
6.687th pct
6.383rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.49174th pct
0.49977th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07412th 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 Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) at 52 lb

String Tour Bite 17 at 51.2 lb 23.2 kg

Coming from Tour Bite 17 at 52 lb

String Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) at 52.8 lb 23.9 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.

Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) mains / Tour Bite 17 crosses

Stiffness45th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss88th pct · 1 measured
Energy return26th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential87th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite75th pct · 1 measured
String friction14th pct · 1 measured

Tour Bite 17 mains / Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) crosses

Stiffness47th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss87th pct · 1 measured
Energy return24th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential84th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite76th pct · 1 measured
String friction18th 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.

Lumina Spin 16L (1.26)

~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
Gosen Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) Polyester16Lfind17850866.60.4910.074
Solinco Tour Bite 17 Polyester17$13.9918149856.30.4990.079

Add a third string Lumina Spin 16L (1.26) in full Tour Bite 17 in full