I rode Schwalbe Marathons for years, because I knew they were high-quality and tough and I was ignorant of alternatives. I also believed that high pressure = fast and ran the 33.33's at about 75-80 PSI. I used to live in a college town that was strewn with broken glass where I logged about 15,000 Rivendell miles. I would often have to pull little bits of ground glass out of the Marathon tread. After seeing some testimonials for Compass tires on the list, I had to see what this supple tire deal was about.
I got about as many flats (hardly any) on Barlow Pass tires run at ≈40 PSI as I did with Marathons at 80 psi. When I put the Compass tires on it was like getting a new bike, with a much livelier and more comfortable ride. I was a bike-only commuter and feared the possibility of getting flats from road debris, but it never came to pass. I think this is because of the lower pressure I was very comfortably and capably running. That idea sounded like a wishful marketing pitch when I bought them, but just wanted to pass along an anecdotal piece of evidence to say that comfort and reliability aren't mutually exclusive. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
