A very slight correction. From my own admittedly limited experience, air less tires fell no worse than:
Thick belted tire with Heavy, stiff sidewalls, lined with Heavy Mr Tuffys, with 500 gram thorn-proof tubes laced with A pint of Slime. An airless tire can actually feel better than this -- harsher, but with slightly less of the "riding in cold molasses" feeling. Patrick Moore, developing his hand strength by installing this combo in many, many different wheels at the LBS every Thursday. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Jan Heine <hein...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Airless tires have so much resistance that you'd rather change a flat > every 10 miles! We tested a set of airless tires for our latest tire test > (Bicycle Quarterly Spring 2013), and found that they used 50% more power > than a good racing tire. Maintaining 20 mph was very hard work. And in > corners, they squirmed so much that it was really disconcerting. With all > that, the lack of comfort was the smallest problem... > > Pneumatic tires were the biggest advance in cycling, perhaps even bigger > than attaching cranks to the front wheel! > > Jan Heine -- http://resumespecialties.com/index.html patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com Albuquerque, NM -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
