IIRC, Grant politely disagreed with Jobst Brandt, who dismissed the value of tread on bike tires, by spec'ing light file tread on tires like the Jack Browns, saying that this might help on wet roads, and anyway, doesn't hurt.
A very small data point: I recall riding slick 32 mm Fatboys back in the day. I found those noticeably more likely to skid in wet than the 22 mm Turbos I also rode back then, these having a slight file tread. Of course, I stupidly pumped the FBs to the "correct" 110 psi, so that may have had something to do with their lack of grip on wet roads. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:29 AM, George Schick <bhim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting. One additional remark about the tires on racing cars and > motorcycles: They run 'em very hot. That's why you see the cars swerving > from side to side when they're going slow during a yellow caution flag in a > NASCAR race, to keep 'em heated up for when the green flag goes down. The > softer tire compounds heat up more quickly, too. 'Course, this doesn't > usually happen with bicycle tires, given the slower speeds, etc. > > BTW, I seem to recall from the distant cobwebs of my aging cranium an > article about tires and tread that Grant wrote years ago in one of his Riv > Readers, concluding that any tread on a bike tire was more or less > irrelevant due to the small "footprint" of the tire on the riding surface. > I'll have to fish around and see if I can find it, to see what he did in > fact say… > > > On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 8:19:06 AM UTC-6, Jan Heine wrote: >> >> Sometimes, it seems that tire tread is just about "design", but there >> actually are real reasons why some tires stick better than others, >> especially in the wet... >> >> https://janheine.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/why-slick-tires-dont-stick-well/ >> >> Jan Heine >> Compass Bicycles Ltd. >> www.compasscycle.com >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
