Seems scary to me. It’s a static answer to a dynamic situation. I could see how data of front and rear wheel force loads over a simple ride like my commute would be helpful to illustrate. A tire differential presented the topic to me yesterday morning.
It’s not the simple weight distribution but the dynamics introduced by braking, coming off the seat to get in moving from a stoplight, lateral force from initial turn-in, cornering and coming out of turns onto a straight path. Terrain of a ride, paved or not, accentuates lots of this. This was on my mind after coming to my bike after work overnight Thursday and seeing the bike next to mine, a fendered Raleigh Roper, sporting a studded front tire while the rear had the everyday 28-ish slick. It made me cringe to imagine how really narrow a band of winter riding would be benefitted by that expense. That rider hasn’t got the miles to possibly have the skills to gain the fraction of a second of traction gain that setup might provide. https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZCjnutXUaFUW4U357 My bike is in front. The next bike isn’t very well pictured for this illustration since I was documenting the increase of riders that 20 degrees makes. I was the lone rider and sole bike a day before. See the tractor tire he fit up front, the rear was maxed with the skinny 28 under plastic fender. I would be confused in the very brief moment of benefit those differing tires would cause. A time span too short to take advantage of before the bad news is delivered and that would be a moment of higher force generated by the front tire contact patch that the rear is not able to translate into traction before slipping. Other than on a bike like a Jones with a truss fork designed to run different sizes (not tread/slick) mixing tires looks to me like a crash ready to happen. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh -- 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.
