This spring I switched from 32mm Cypres to 38mm Barlow Pass EL on my Romulus, mounted on Open Pro rims. I liked everything except how the wheel seemed to want to dig in at a sharp switchback. I built a new set of wheels with H+Son Archetype rims, and the tires behaved much better on the wider 23mm rims. I am now convinced that 38mm tires are too wide for standard (21mm) road rims.
On a different note, I now have cuts on both tires. I booted my rear tire which got cut by a cattle grate on King's Ridge. Now I discovered a 3mm cut on the front sidewall, orthogonal to the outer threads and in the same direction as the inner threads. I have maybe about a thousand miles on them, and the rubber still looks new. I am tempted to glue a patch on the inside made from a Challenge Paris-Roubaix casing, maybe some AquaSeal on the outside. Is this safe? I typically run them at 50psi. The rear tire has a similar patch, but I was less concerned as it is on the bottom (with rubber on the outside), and it is rear tire. Perhaps I should rotate them so the sidewall boot goes on the rear tire? --Metin On Thursday, September 4, 2014 8:10:37 AM UTC-7, Jan Heine wrote: > > Perhaps it's useful to clarify: > > Having ridden the same bikes with 700C x 32 mm and 700C x 38 mm tires, I > prefer the wider tires. The extra air inside and the extra rubber on the > road really transform the bike. However, if I were to get a new bike, I'd > still spec it for 650B, as I prefer the handling of the slightly smaller > wheels. Too bad if that statement slows the sales of our Barlow Pass 700C x > 38 mm tires... *Bicycle Quarterly* always has been about honest reports > of our findings, not about boosting sales. > > Jan Heine > Editor > Bicycle Quarterly > -- 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.
