I own a Bike Friday New World Tourist and have ridden both with 1.75 tires and my current 1.50 Schwalbe Marathons. Just to be sure I've got Riv content my NWT has actually visited Walnut Creek and sat with all the employee bikes while I fell in love with a Bombadil (but ended buying one of the last Quickbeams - still saving for another Riv). This was no small feat as I live in Hawaii and that's a long ride!. I've had the NWT in Mexico, the Bay Area, L.A., Las Vegas, and San Antonio since last 2008 and love it.
As for the tires, I'm a big guy 6'1" 250ish and the 1.50's seem fine to me - as did the 1.75's. I'd probably have stuck with the 1.75's but the only 20" tires my local LBS had when I needed a new set (sidewall rip on the old set) were the Schwalbes at 1.50. I use the Bike Friday travel fenders and did with the 1.75's as well. I'll be riding it @ RAGBRAI this year. You can find out more on the Yak - the Bike Friday list. The easiest way it is to search it with Google's site search. Something like this will work in a Google Search: site:http://store.bikefriday.com/pipermail/yak/ tires Or just go to: http://www.axelafa.com/sftp/friday/searchBFArchives.html San Antonio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgps-bob/4750091266/in/set-72157624269374247/ L.A. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgps-bob/4407660253/in/set-72157623557922162/ Las Vegas http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgps-bob/4106964435/in/set-72157622686950471/ Bay Area (when it visited Riv) * * http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgps-bob/3331869015/in/set-72157614789355569/ <http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgps-bob/4750091266/in/set-72157624269374247/>I really like the NWT, though I mostly ride my Quickbeam here in Honolulu, including centuries and such. I'd love to have a Riv for RAGBRAI but I'm not doing it single speed and the cost of transporting anything to and from Hawaii makes a Bike Friday really practical for travel as it's just luggage. Aloha! On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Rene Sterental <orthie...@gmail.com> wrote: > With all the expertise in this group, I'm going to take the liberty of > asking a tire question for a non-Riv bike. I apologize but I don't know > where else to ask it. > > I'm going to get a Bike Friday Pocket Llama so I can take a bicycle with me > when I travel. I travel quite frequently for business and always feel that > if I just had a bike with me on most places where I go to, I'd be able to > enjoy myself more and also get to sight see the place rather than getting > stuck in the hotel or having to rent a car. In the Riv spirit, the bike is > steel and will have racks so I can also carry my bags and perhaps even do > some touring with it. > > I can get either a BF Llama or a BF World Tourer. The only difference is > that the Llama can take Big Apples 2.0 tires while the World Tourer only > takes up to 1.75" tires, the idea being that the Llama can be ridden on dirt > trails more easily. I know very little about the properties of 20" wheeled > bikes, but I wonder if the benefit of being able to ride the Big Apples are > as relevant on these bikes as they are on the Rivendells. > > Thanks for the feedback, > > René > > -- > 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-bunch@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. > -- Robert Harrison rfharri...@gmail.com statrix.com -- 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-bunch@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.
