No offense guys, but you clearly ride on pretty decent roads. Where I ride, even an armadillo is no guarantee that you won't get at least 1 flat per week, assuming 3-4 days of riding. I have a 28mm (true width) Armadillo on the back on my nice fixie (don't like unbolting the wheel along the road if I can avoid it) and I run it at about 90PSI. I weigh 200+ and frankly I don't notice anything horrible going on back there.
I think a lot of newbies are deathly afraid of getting a flat and go for ultra stout over light and more likely to flat... Doug On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:57 PM, cyclotourist <cyclotour...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 14:34 -0800, cyclotourist wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> >> > wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 14:14 -0800, beth h wrote: >> > > An astonishingly bomb-proof tire with an equally >> > astonishingly >> > > mediocre ride quality. >> > >> > >> > Those two things do tend to go together. How does it compare >> > with the >> > Specialized Armadillo (my all time worst ever ride quality >> > tire)? >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Please do not ever mention that tire in polite company. >> >> You would be very surprised to see how many high end (and I'm talking 8 >> grand and up) road bikes I see with those Armadillo 700x23s. I find it >> entirely incomprehensible. >> >> -- >> > > Not surprised, amazed. Do they come stock like that or to owners put them > on after purchasing them? I can't imagine a mnfg. allowing their bike to > leave the factory with those mounted. > > -- > Cheers, > David > Redlands, CA > > "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something > wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." ~Bill Nye, > scientist guy >--
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