Peter: Same as per others; as wide a tire as you can will take the hits of poor street surfaces. I put on some 700 x 37 Schwalbe Marathon Plus Smartguard tires and have been well impressed. I'm a daily commuter and have had no flats for 14 months despite some pretty awful pavement. They felt a tad heavy-ish and had a really narrow band of optimum inflation range to me initially, but their durability has been astonishing, the (lack of) tread wear particularly.
I admit and accept the performance compromise but revel in their durability. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh > > On Thursday, August 1, 2013 12:16:10 AM UTC-4, Peter wrote: > > Hi everyone. Please tell me what tire and width of tire you'd recommend > for a novice commuter riding on wet (rainy) and poor city streets. I find > that I don't feel very safe on wet streets and thus suffer a loss of > confidence unless I ride quite slowly--obviously I want to keep riding and > improve my skills. At the moment I'm gearing up to buy a new bike from > Rivendell, but haven't yet decided on the model. My current bike is a > Cannondale touring bike. > Many thanks. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
