I don't get the Marathon hate. I put them on my "road" bike (an 80s Shogun). I used to go on weekly rides with roadies. Everyone else rode skinny road tires. I had no trouble keeping up and I never got a flat. We had at least three flats in the group on every ride.
I have Marathons on my Brompton and I'm not feeling like there is anything wrong with the ride of my bike. My Retrovelo has five year old Fat Franks that outlived their tubes. I do have Panaracer Col da Vies on my vintage Raleigh. Yeah, at 45psi they feel like 20psi MTB tires. But I just don't feel like risking the flats on bikes I actually ride to get places. On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 7:35:20 PM UTC-8, Mobile Bill wrote: > > It would be wrong to suggest that Marathons never flat. I just had my > third flat, a slow leak ... in the course of riding 5 Marathons 22,000 > miles on my Saluki (not sets of tires, but 5 tires). The tires I have on > there probably have at least a couple of thousand left in them. I keep > thinking I should replace them with something more clever. But getting this > flat weirdly reminded me of why I'm reluctant to give them up. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
