Hi Garth, Your periodic reminders to just keep riding is indeed useful!
I'm born with an itch to constantly experiment with things. Sometimes this habit can go out of control, so hearing some words of wisdom definitely helps :) Thanks. On Friday, 16 June 2017 09:32:57 UTC-7, Garth wrote: > > Ash, unless you want to make changing tires a habit and like it, and > unless you have some compelling reason beyond "comparitis", just keep > riding what you have. > > To me good riding is forgetting altogether about the bike, about yourself > even, about all those things that seemed so important but are not. > > I remember all the touring I did in the early 80's on the Trek I had at > the time. It had 28mm Specialzed Touring Turbo tires. I don't recall ever > flatting as I look back, and I never recall wishing for other tires, but I > do recall all the fun I had just being there, whereever that happened to > be. I looked up those tires for some "specs" and found them in a 1984 Palo > Alto catalog which I used to shop from , seems these nice folding tires > weighed a whopping 250 grams. Huh, how about that. > > Having since gitten sucked in to the "wider is better" wave, I say wider > tires are just wider, not better or worse. I like the ride of narrow tires > on road-ish bikes, like 25-32mm, give or take. A wider tire will never feel > the same as narrower and vice versa. Just different ways . I have seen many > waves in the cycling biz, some stay some do not. All in all more choices is > alright as long as what you prefer is still available and not forgotten > just for sake of the wave of something "new". > > -- 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.
