No experience with Jack Browns of either hue, but have put in several thousand miles on GB Cypres ELs, and about a thousand miles on Compass Stampede Pass ELs. Both these tires are 32mm +/-. I also ride a range of Compass tires in larger sizes on other bikes: Barlows, Snoqs, RTPs, (all ELs) even the now-discontinued 26"x1.75" "Compasellas". I have nothing but good to say about the larger Compass tires, and note in passing that I've seldom had them flat.
The GBC ELs I originally rode on my LHT, as my gateway drug to light, supple tires. After the doughty 37mm Continental Contact touring tires I had been running, they transformed the ride of that bike, and opened my eyes. I rode them over the full gamut of surfaces I was already in the habit of riding on the Trucker: pavement rough and smooth, urban and rural, dirt with the standard New England ration of roots and rocks, and the odd stretch of gravel. While I changed the occasional flat, this was not a big deal: didn't take long, and the tires were easy to work with and seated right the first time (I did learn to search assiduously for sharps still buried in the tread however; no sense changing the same flat twice). I had been clinging to the Contis in part from fear of flats, and found I needn't have bothered. When the 38mm Barlow Pass EL was introduced, I swapped a pair onto the LHT, and loved them. But I found myself missing the Cypres's extreme nimbleness, and built up a Rawland Nordavinden frameset in part as a platform for continuing to run those tires; it continues to do so to this day, and rides like a dream, comfy and nimble, with the added pleasures of a lively frame and low-trail handing. When an older Ebisu frameset fell into my hands, I took it as an opportunity to try the 32mm Compass Stampede Pass ELs, and love them, too. When the Cypres ELs on the Rawland wear out, I will have to make a decision as to whether to order another set from Japan, or to replace them with Stampede Pass ELs. We'll see about that when the time comes, and I may try swapping the tires between the two bikes to try to get a little more insight into how much of what I'm experiencing is the frameset and how much is the tires (the wheelsets and drivetrains of the two bikes are identical). If I had to equip a 3rd bike with 32mm tires, I'd probably go with the Stampede Pass ELs, since they do seem to corner a little better and have a more robust interface between tread and casing (a documented weakness of the Cypress that, mercifully, has never bit me). In the meantime, I'm building up an MIT Atlantis as a platform for a pair of Antelope Hill ELs, a sort of human-powered hovercraft. rod On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 3:45:35 PM UTC-4, Lum Gim Fong wrote: > > How do the Jack Browns (green) compare to the GB Cypres or Compass 32 you > have ridden? > > Thanks for your thoughts. > -- 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.
