I've had a couple pairs of the Gen. 1 Barlow Passes. I like them, but not that much more than the Jack Brown Greens they replaced. I do admit they have a nice silky ride.
The main downside over the JBGs in my experience was that the Compasses were harder to mount perfectly round with no lumps. I found this on a few different rims, in spite of some of the outlandish "mounting solutions" discussed here and elsewhere over time. I haven't experienced that with other supple/supple-ish tires like Schwalbe Thunder Burts and Clement MSO, and it is so irritating it takes most of the enjoyment out of the supple tire experience. Some other Panaracer tires have exhibited this for me too (Soma B-Line, Soma Supple Vitesse, Col de la Vie) but interestingly, not the JBGs. Now that I live on the Wet Coast, I may have to downsize to 700x28s and fenders for my previously-unfendered road bike. I've thought about going with some EL Compass Chinook Passes but those tires (and the rest of the EL variants) cost CAD$100+ *PER TIRE* here in Canada. Ummm! KJ On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 2:55:42 PM UTC-8, Lum Gim Fong wrote: > > Why? > What did you start using? > -- 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.
