Yah, 26" wheels are for weenies. Real men ride 700c 2.35 Big Apples. Seriously (No!) that looks like a nice bike.
I just did a 14 mile, 70 minute out and back that included several miles of climbing on sandy, steepish dirt roads on ABQ's NW mesa, riding the Sow or Silk Purse Refurbished Monocog 29er with the new Liteskins. If I am honest with myself, I have to say that I am not sure that the Liteskins perform any better than the original, wire bead BAs of the same size, but, in my imagination at least, they did very well, floating on extended patches of 2" to 3" sand and smoothing the washboard of the dirt roads I rid directly NW from my starting point. I bailed twice or thrice when deep sand and inclines combined to discourage me, but over 8 miles of dirt I had to walk no more than 150 feet. On the six or so miles of pavement, the BA Liteskins rolled smoothly at 16/19 and, on the 45 mm Snocat SLs, exhibited no front end dive in corners; it looks as if 16-17 lb front is the sweet spot for all round dirt/pavement. Twelve psi is better for sand and washboard but then you suffer from sidewall flop in pavement/firm dirt corners. Lastly, the new organic front pads make a huge difference to the Road BB7 front disk, itself recently swapped to a 180 mm rotor. Not quite up to the braking with optimum wide-profile cantis or V brakes, but good enough for me. (The levers are old Dura Ace aeros.) The new Liteskins measured 60 mm when first installed on the SnoCats; after a day or two they were up to 61.3 mm; I expect that, after another week they will stretch to match the 65 mm of the original wire bead BAs. On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:20 PM, stevep33 <steve...@gmail.com> wrote: > I put some Big Apple Liteskin 26x2.35's on myrigid Salsa mountain > bike. I can't compare them to the regular BA's, but these tires are > awesome. They are fast on the pavement and great on trails. Not as > grippy as knobbies but not slippery either. Perfect tires for my > multi surface rides. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/27988...@n06/sets/72157624113649982/ > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
