And yet Steve, many people do ride "armored" tires and even add flat strips and all kinds of stuff and it does not deter their enjoyment .
While nice clinchers are nice, tubular wheels and tires are still even better. I used to ride tubulars for a while , surely really nice, but no part or bike is the end all all-that. They were wonderful but not so transforming that I HAD to ride them absolutely. Regardless of the circumstances and details, after a while you still forget about them and all your precious "individual details and parts" and the whole experience of just being where you are is all there is. On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 6:43:39 AM UTC-4, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > A lousy tire can spoil all that. I put a set of Specialized Nimbus > Armadillo tires on my commuter once. Even though I was fanatical about > extracting every penny of value and made it a point to ride my tires > right down to the cords, those tires so utterly transformed the bike > that after only two weeks I'd had enough: I removed them and threw them > away. > > I agree, the over-examined life is not worth living and paralysis by > analysis is far worse than merely picking some middle of the road choice > and getting on with life. But considering how cheap cycling is in the > vast great scheme of things, if you know (as we do) what the best > choices (for several definitions of "best") are, for many of us the only > thing that makes sense is to get the best. > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
