Bob, I hope you are OK from the spill.
Many of my hard learned lessons have been realized very soon after flying over the bars, or sliding along the ground. IMHO, the best tire for gravel you described is probably a great big honkin knobby tire...that will royally suck everywhere else! Even then it is still like "surfing" over a loose surface. I my previous life we had a very steep, very loose hill that had about a 50% success rate...ce la vie! Angus On Oct 13, 7:04 pm, Bob Cooper <robertcoo...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > Advice sought about riding in the gravel: > > Conventional wisdom has it that, if the road surface is harder than > the tire, then knobbies are not an advantage, and a slick tire offers > more grip. > > Today I fell on a steep ascent -- about 20+ percent -- on a road > covered in creek gravel the size of robins’ eggs. (I know: I didn’t > pick my line sagely.) > > As I spun though the air, looking up at the tops of the trees and at > my feet, which were up there with the trees, I had a moment to reflect > on the conventional wisdom. > > I know that a lot of subscribers to this list do a lot of mixed > terrain riding, and I was wondering, if anyone had an opinion about > the use of knobbies versus slicks -- or inverted-tread tires -- for > this application. > > Continental Town and Country, 2.1 inch, 25 psi. (What I had today.) > > Versus, for example, Specialized Ground Control II, 1.95 inch, same > psi. (What I have in the parts bin.) > > Any advice appreciated, > > Bob “Love Those Lonely, Gravel Roads” Cooper -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
