Yup. Studded tires increase your rolling resistance by a couple orders of magnitude. Of course, they'd be *point*less if they didn't.
I swapped out my Nokian W160s back to the ITS DJ Micro Knobbies on my Schwinn KOM, and now it's like I'm going downhill. Nice riding 26" tire at $18 apiece <http://www.jensonusa.com/Intense-Tires-Micro-Knobby-26-DJ-Tire>, and they have cool tread. I'd recommend them as a commute tire if they had any puncture protection at all. On icy pavement, how do the A10s ride? I'm satisfied with the W160s, and assume the A10's ride similarly. I'm keeping an eye out for A10s on clearance for my Riv and my gf's 51 San Marcos. Tim Gavin Cedar Rapids, IA USA On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Shoji Takahashi <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm with you on the Nokian A10s... I'm glad I have them for the winter ice > commute, but I can't wait to swap back to the Jack Browns. It feels like > riding into a perpetual headwind. > > shoji > > > On Friday, March 14, 2014 11:04:29 PM UTC-4, RonaTD wrote: >> >> I have used 3 different sets of tires on my Bleriot/Protovelo in the last >> few months: >> Nokian A10 >> Riv Fatty Rumpkin (the original ones) >> Pacenti Pari Moto >> >> The difference in riding effort/speed is astonishing. I describe the >> difference between the Nokians and the Pari Motos as three gears (on a wide >> range cluster). I met up with pal Kurt for the last 10 miles of his epic >> January 200km ride, and I exhausted myself trying to keep up with him. Two >> weeks earlier, on Pari Motos on a 200km brevet, I flew away from him on the >> first climb. >> >> The Fatty Rumpkins are in between, but far aback of the Pari Motos. I >> tried to mount the Fatty Rumpkins for commuting last week (surely winter >> must be over) and gave up after an hour of trying to get them to mount >> straight. The Pari Motos went back on. Event tires, I guess, but commuting >> is an event, too. >> >> Ted Durant >> Milwaukee, WI, USA >> >> -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
