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Prince Tour XR 15L (1.35) vs Solinco Tour Bite 16

Tour Bite 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Tour XR 15L (1.35) is 25 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Prince

Tour XR 15L (1.35)

Polyester · 15L ga

Solinco

Tour Bite 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
21382nd pct
20371st pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4986th pct
4782nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
827th pct
8520th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
6.788th pct
6.788th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.48873rd pct
0.57393rd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.0739th pct
0.08534th pct

Bars are percentile against all 788 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 Tour XR 15L (1.35) at 52 lb

String Tour Bite 16 at 54.6 lb 24.8 kg

Coming from Tour Bite 16 at 52 lb

String Tour XR 15L (1.35) at 49.5 lb 22.5 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.

Tour XR 15L (1.35) mains / Tour Bite 16 crosses

Stiffness78th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss85th pct · 1 measured
Energy return9th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential88th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite78th pct · 1 measured
String friction15th pct · 1 measured

Tour Bite 16 mains / Tour XR 15L (1.35) crosses

Stiffness75th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss83rd pct · 1 measured
Energy return13th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential88th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite92nd pct · 1 measured
String friction28th 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.

Tour XR 15L (1.35)

~14 hours of play

Tour Bite 16

~15 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Prince Tour XR 15L (1.35) Polyester15Lfind21349826.70.4880.073
Solinco Tour Bite 16 Polyester16$13.9920347856.70.5730.085

Add a third string Tour XR 15L (1.35) in full Tour Bite 16 in full