I used the Pari-Moto, but not all black. My impression was the all black have even less tread than the black with brown sidewalls, but I may be wrong.
All of these wide and lower pressure tires should handle fire roads fine, but Pari-Moto tires and the Grand Bois ones in general don't have very strong sidewalls, so I would be careful about sidewall cuts from rocks on trails. I personally would go with Soma B-Line or Soma Xpress tires because they seem to be a bit more sturdy and would handle the occasional off-road use much better in my opinion. However, I don't know if they come in all black. The actual width of the Soma Xpress is less than the Pari-Moto. If I were all road, then I would go with the Pari-Moto, Lierre or Hetre if you can handle the width (probably no problem if you don't have fenders). The Pari-Moto is more of an event tire in that it would be the first to wear out tread-wise... Good luck, Toshi On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Johnny Alien <johnnyal...@verizon.net>wrote: > So Rivendell gave me Conti Tour tires on my new Sam. While they are OK > they definitely are sluggish compared to other tires I have used. I would > like to stay with a fatter tire on this bike but would like something a > little swifter. It doesn't really need to be road racer fast or anything > but something designed to be a little faster would be nice. My restrictions > are that I need a 650B tire and I would prefer to get ones that are all > black. I am flexible with the second one. Are Pari Motos my main choice? > Are they strong enough for occasional rail to trail use? If possible I > would like to stay that wide or wider. Any suggestions? > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
