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Solinco Tour Bite 16 vs Yonex Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25)

Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25) leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25) is 32 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Solinco

Tour Bite 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Yonex

Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25)

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20370th pct
19663rd pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4782nd pct
4782nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8520th pct
8414th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
6.788th pct
7.695th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.57393rd pct
0.50077th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08534th pct
0.0662nd 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 Tour Bite 16 at 52 lb

String Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25) at 54.0 lb 24.5 kg

Coming from Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25) at 52 lb

String Tour Bite 16 at 50.1 lb 22.7 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 Bite 16 mains / Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25) crosses

Stiffness68th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss82nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return18th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential89th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite92nd pct · 1 measured
String friction25th pct · 1 measured

Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25) mains / Tour Bite 16 crosses

Stiffness67th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss82nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return16th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential94th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite81st pct · 1 measured
String friction5th 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 Bite 16

~15 hours of play

Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25)

~15 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Solinco Tour Bite 16 Polyester16$13.9920347856.70.5730.085
Yonex Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25) Polyester16Lfind19647847.60.5000.066

Add a third string Tour Bite 16 in full Poly Tour Drive 16L (1.25) in full