Thanks for your reply. I am going give it a try. My go fast bikes are my Independent Fabrication bikes and the Grand Bois won't fit. I ride 25's on them. Its fun to have bikes with different handling and ride characteristics. Enjoy your riding.
On Sunday, June 22, 2014 7:01:19 PM UTC-7, eflayer wrote: > > Don, > > My Cerfs are 28 mm. I run 85 psi in Michelin Lithion 25 mm. Reduce the > pressure, enjoy the ride. > On Sunday, June 22, 2014 10:21:47 AM UTC-7, Anne Paulson wrote: > >> I got back yesterday from Sierra to the Sea, a 586 mile supported bike >> tour from Lake Tahoe to San Francisco. >> >> I used the Grand Bois Cypres tires. I now want to report that they were >> splendid. We encountered some roads with terrible pavement, as I knew we >> would since this was my second year on the trip. The tires are marked for >> 75-95 psi, so I initially tried 80 psi. After a day, I let out some air; >> around 60 psi ended up working well for me. >> >> Others would slow down on the bumpy downhills, but I just zoomed. My >> buddy with narrow tires was constantly crowing about how great his tires >> were. When I followed him on some bad stretches of pavement on the flats, I >> grew tired of his weaving around trying to find a good line, whereas I just >> rode straight with no trouble. >> >> No flats, no problems. >> >> I still think that there ought to be a standard way to measure bike tire >> width, so we can compare tires from different vendors. But these tires >> (which still measure 30mm wide on my bike) performed admirably. >> >> -- >> -- Anne Paulson >> >> It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. >> > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
