Hi Ray, for my commute in san francisco and local trails in the marin headlands I've been using jack brown blues on my romulus and jack brown greens on my quickbeam, although I don't take my QB on the trails as often as the romulus. Even though the jack browns lack any off-road tread as is found on something like schwalbe xr (which I have tried) I’ve never found the lack of tread to be an issue on the trails around here and, of course, they are more pleasant for the road portions of the ride.
Having tried most of the tires listed in this thread the jack browns are still my favorite for these bikes and local riding conditions. Even though they are on two very different bikes I don't notice much difference in feel or weight between the blues vs. greens and have not yet had an external puncture on either after a year of riding with the jack browns (initially I did have several pinch flats on the jb blues when used in combination with a velocity synergy rim, but haven't recently). My all-time favorite road tire is still the grand bois cypres 700x30 but they are expensive and wear more quickly, so for our local riding conditions I have found the jack browns ideal. My QB with JB greens: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25972...@n02/3078057749 My Romulus with JB blues: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25972...@n02/3798563613 Good luck on your tire quest, Brett in S.F. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
