My wife and I have been riding a custom made Santana Noventa for the past several years our choice of tire size is 700x28 sans fenders. We originally used Conti Gatorskins and then switched to Ruffy Tuffy's . We were once part of the go fast crowd and actually considered the 700x28's to be a concession in speed for comfort and durability. We average "approx" 1 flat per 1k miles. We did once encounter a split casing and had to mount a new tire to finish the ride (good thing we had a spare, eh). I just built myself a new Rivendell A. Homer Hilsen and run 650b x 38's that I have just fell in love with. This has me giving serious thought to switching to 700x32's on the Santana I believe this would be an ideal set-up for more comfort and durability without much sacrifice in speed .
-Ricky On Thursday, February 7, 2013 1:53:35 AM UTC-5, Salween wrote: > > Don't know if Grant and Co. will ever produce a tandem, so in the meantime > will be getting one elsewhere. > > Seems like most tandems out there follow the skinny tire theme, with the > exception of R+E in Seattle and Bilenky in Philadelphia, and even their > tire clearances don't seem to push as far north as nearly all Riv singles. > So wondering if there are any tandem riders here and what tire widths they > prefer. On my Sam I ride 33/35mm tires often on marginal roads. So > wondering what that might translate to on a 700c tandem? > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
