I started out with 700x42 Soma Supple Vitesse tires on my Atlantis (probably closer to 40mm). It wasn't until trying a set of 700x50 Soma Cazaderos that I realized I didn't like the handling with the 42s. Seemed like the Atlantis "wanted" a bigger tire. I found a sweet spot in the Gravelking Slick 700x43 (45mm actual), probably my favorite tires to date for mostly paved riding.
On Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 8:30:27 AM UTC-4 John at Rivendell wrote: > No. > > On Friday, May 9, 2025 at 2:38:12 PM UTC-7 Ben Miller wrote: > >> I recently went from 55 to 45 mm tyres on my Hunq, so I could run the new >> 2025 GK's in Cranberry. I'll be running those til Ultradynamico makes their >> Mars 700's in red! >> >> One thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet, is that the copy for the Joe >> on the Riv site it says: "Ideal for tires between 1.5-inches and >> 2.2-inches" which is 38mm at the low end. Might want to shoot for >> something more like 700x40's to be on the safe side. And there are a lot of >> great tyres in that size! >> >> On Friday, May 9, 2025 at 1:57:09 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: >> >>> I haven’t “gone back” to skinnier tires on my favorite 1999 custom road >>> fixed gear Rivendell, but I have chosen to use Rene Herse’s superlatively >>> smooth and fast-rolling 559 X 27 mm (actual on my narrow rims; 32 mm >>> labeled) Elk Passes instead of the 42 cm (39 actual) Naches Passes because >>> the bike just feels more nimble besides seeming to roll with less effort. >>> By this last I mean that consistently over the same terrain in the same >>> conditions in the same gear at the same cadences the 1999 seems easier to >>> pedal with the EPs versus the NPs. >>> >>> I think I’d certainly notice a difference at least on a good *road bike* >>> between >>> 2” tires and 35s, and if I had your question, I’d answer it by having 2 >>> wheelsets, one for 50s and one for 35s, with appropriate gearing. >>> >>> That said, I have no idea if an Appaloosa would handle nicely with 35s. >>> I do recall how badly my road-ified (drop bars, road gearing, road tires) >>> early ‘90s mountain bikes* handled* with 559 X 23 mm Specialized >>> Turbos, otherwise very nice tires indeed despite their width that rolled >>> very well and were suprisingly smooth on pavement. >>> >>> On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM Michael Morrissey <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I'm riding my Appaloosa with 29x2.0" tires (aka 700 by 50mm), and after >>>> doing the Five Boro Bike Tour, I was thinking about going to skinnier >>>> tires. But, I'm not sure about it. I enjoy the comfort and ability to hop >>>> curbs that comes with the current tire size. >>>> >>>> Has anyone here gone back to, let's say 700x35 tires on their bike >>>> instead of the big 2" tires? Let's assume I have one bike and I bike 15 >>>> miles everyday in the city. >>>> >>>> Michael >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 view this discussion visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/504b60c6-0043-48c5-9bc8-117fc6ddfb1fn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/504b60c6-0043-48c5-9bc8-117fc6ddfb1fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing >>> services >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* >>> >>> *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* >>> >>> *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* >>> >> -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5b610286-6f6e-4beb-b203-fa01b6a51ca5n%40googlegroups.com.
