Those Somas: for comparison: On pavement I tend to use the same gears in the same conditions that I used for the RH Oracle Ridge knobbies; perhaps the ORs call for “1/2 tooth” smaller; while those wonderful fast rolling but wallowy 61 mm Big Ones asked for 1 tooth smaller in back, like the 559 X 28 mm Elk Passes. So perhaps with el Snoqualmies and TPU tubes the Matt 1 might not feel so piglike on steep hills?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > [While] The Matthews #1 — dirt road road bike — … rolls very nicely on > the flatlands I generally ride it on, on steep hills either the weight or > the admittedly non-sparkling Somas (despite their 360 gram weight for 51 > mm), it felt rather like a pig on the steepest climbs last Sunday: too much > effort expended for forward and upward movement gained. > -- 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/CALuTfgu8fNbC4ydTVnosqOxMORvPmcCCn8mC%3D%2B9Fk8GvoHvbtQ%40mail.gmail.com.
