On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 07:55 -0700, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:44 AM, NickBull <[email protected]> > wrote: > For the last three years, I've been using 700x32 > (non-Tourguard) > Pasela's for "unimportant" centuries and brevets, and GB > 700x30's for > "important" brevets (anything 600K or over, where faster tires > may > make a significant difference in either sleep or in finishing > on > time). The Pasela's are definitely not quite as nice, but > they're > plenty good enough and fast enough for the shorter events. > Hard to > beat the price at about $15 a tire, usually. The Tourguard > version is > noticeably slower, and I quit using those. The flat rate is > about > comparable between the Tourguard Pasela's, the non-Tourguard > Pasela's, > and the GB's. I think on the East Coast, we have fewer issues > from > thorns, and as long as you stay out of shoulder debris, it > mostly > comes down to good or bad luck in hitting something that will > puncture. > > Thanks, Nick -- if you find the Paselas good enough for "short" rides > like, oh, say 100, 120 miles, I feel somewhat awkward wondering if I > should spend the extra cash for tootling around at my usual 3K miles a > year rate, much of which is 11-12 mile rts to the store.
That depends on how fast you want to go, doesn't it? As Nick pointed out, the GBs are faster than the Paselas. In his case, he's fast enough to have no difficulty doing a 200 or 300 km brevet within the allowed time limit on slower tires. There is no prize for completing a brevet faster than the allowed time, so when it isn't close why not economize a bit, and save the faster but far more expensive tires for those situations where the advantage they provide may mean the difference between finishing with the time limit or failing to do so? You could, of course, argue that there is no time limit for grocery runs, other than getting to the store before it closes -- and in this era of 24 hour supermarkets that's not much of a concern. Or you could say, some folks care so much about going fast they'll spend hundreds of dollars to save a couple of dozen grams of weight because they think it'll make them faster. You know yourself. What matters most? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
