Patrick: Fat n soft... You can always pump em up and they roll like fogettaboutit...
Favorites: Still love the 50mm Big Apples, 60mm Fat Franks or BAs, and my new fave: 50mm Kojaks... I also have discovered (this may sound crazy) the red Grand Tycoon 26 x 2.125 tires roll exceptionally well, and the rubber is so soft and pliable, these rank up there with the Schwalbes at half the price. Peace, BB On Feb 1, 5:34 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just took a nice 22 mile out and back, 3/4 dirt, along our Rio > Grande bosque trails and fire roads: wonderful ride. I find that I am > considerably less tempted to do the time trial schtick on dirt than I > am on pavement, making for a more pleasant ride and -- mirabile dictu! > -- fast, comfortable "mini time trials" on the way back, on dirt, > thanks to having given myself ample time to warm up. > > But enough about me. After riding the (insert name of non-Rivendell, > but IMO very Rivendellish, tigg'd, Salsa model here -- steel! steel! > It's steel!!) with the skinny Sun Rhyno wheelset with 40 mm Ritchey > Speed Maxes for a couple of months, I finally got around to going to > the fabric store and buying a roll of 1 1/2' ribbon wherewith to > provide the SnoCat SLs with rim strips (I was tempted to buy some very > pretty brocade type ribbon but saved my $$ and bought basic black) so > I could re-install the Big Apples. Today's ride was on the BA wheelset > at about 12/18 psi, and I was once again surprised and pleased at how > well the 60 mm BAs roll; on pavement -- tho' they are faster at a few > psi more: say 20/25 -- but especially on firm dirt and gravel; I swear > up and down that they roll ***as well*** on the sub 1" sand, packed > clay, woodcut debris and light gravel of the route I took as they do > (at 12/18) on smooth pavement. (As I was cruising at 18 mph on the > gravel verge of the bike path, a youngster passed me (on pavement) and > said, "Nice beast!") Me, I'd rather push a soft BA on pavement than > push a hard, skinny, sub 50 mm tire on dirt. > > So, what's y'all's preference for combination on/off road riding? Fat > and soft on pavement, or skinny, hard 42s on dirt? > > Patrick "God willing, will pick up my 35 mm Kojaks for the Rhyno Lite > wheelset -- strictly pavement! -- tomorrow" Moore > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRWhttp://resumespecialties.com/index.html -- 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-bunch@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.
