If the stock tires are the Kenda Kwik Nines, they are awful, slow, uncomfortable junk. I was surprised how much faster and smoother my Clem rode when I replaced them with 44mm Resist Nomads. Even though the Nomads were narrower, they were so much smoother since the sidewalls weren’t made of concrete.
So, even if the tires aren’t the source of your black spots, it’s still worth upgrading. On Wednesday, September 25, 2019, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! < jonasandle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a 2015 Clementine with the original Kenda tires. I have heard those > aren’t nice tires and I’m starting to suspect the rumors are true. “Boggy” > someone once said, and that makes sense to me. > > At any rate, something worse is happening. Every day I come home from the > school commute and notice black speckles all over my legs, and more on my > left leg than right. The dots are not like grease - they LOOK like grease > but wipe off like dust. I took a video of this but think it might be weird > to post leg videos. At any rate, I suspected the stuff was coming from the > chain. Joe Bernard told me to get a chain cleaner and get at it, which I > did, and now my chain is clean but I still have the problem. Roberta asked > about my tires. Are they flaking off? They don’t appear to be, but I don’t > know. > > Whatever the problem, doesn’t this seem like a good excuse to get new > tires? > > I would love your input here. I want them to be the same fatness (there’s > a technical term!) that I have now, because I LOVE them and because they > fit with my fenders. I need puncture resistance. I have a healthy fear of > flats and zero skills to fix them. I’m telling you I live dangerously. That > is all! > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e29acc9c-3f50-4394-88d0- > 431e6f406c32%40googlegroups.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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAHFNW5CW6GvCCfZz-vwgqxbQiJdFX5Ec%3DgfpuD3iUhZFKFVqZQ%40mail.gmail.com.
