I once hit a rock between the size of an olive and a walnut and it cut the sidewall of a 27" Pasela....ruined the tire and I had about 3 miles on it at the time. I ordered another tire and the pair lasted around 3000 miles. I have had really good luck with the Urban Max Panaracer tires....these are blackwalls with a yellow rubber inside and a tread exactly like the Pasela. The wire bead blackwall Pasela is also a fairly robust tire. I still use Panaracer tires on my derailleurless bicycle but ride 700x42 (38 mm actual) Schwalbe Marathons Supremes on my geared bicycle. These are very nice, comfy and speedy enough. These cost quite a bit but inspire confidence. I might add that I am at about 270 now and still haven't had a major problem with my 27x 1 1/4" Pasela tires at 90 psi. I really think its the rocks cutting the sidewalls that does it. I am very careful to avoid that on my local route. On the Marathon equipped bike I don't worry about it so much.
On May 1, 2:34 pm, Mike S <mikeshalj...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had a set of the 32mm Panaracer Paselas that Riv used to sell on > a bike of mine for about one year and less than 750 miles, and I > noticed yesterday that there is a hole in the sidewall that apparently > just opened up on it's own, as the tube was fine. It seems really > ludicrous to me that seemingly good quality tires made in Japan could > go bad so quickly, and I'm wondering if others have experiences with > lousy Pasela sidewalls? > > I got them for a pretty good price ($30/ea on sale), but they seem to > be no bargain at all given the inferior quality. I got them mostly > because they were inexpensive and were exactly the max width I can run > on an old Trek fork. Have others found a good quality, non-super- > expensive tire at 32mm? Does Schwalbe make a good tire that is > actually 32mm and is in the $35-40/ea. range? -- 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.
