Speaking of tires, I have to give a plug for the Cont. CX speed that Riv sells, if you havnt ridden that tire, you ought too. Its pretty darn light ~ 420grams, and feels supple to me and SUPER grippy, even has flat protection. Unimprovable( made up word) for the kind of riding I enjoy! -Mike
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 14, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Bill Gibson <bill.bgib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My Grand Bois tires sing around Phoenix, even on dirt. I don't ride my road > bike on the trails of South Mountain, but the roads there are great. Just too > short. > > >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: >> Well, consider the rides they do (at least the ones they mention publicly). >> Jan does very long rides mostly on pavement and some gravel with an eye >> towards speed. Grant rides a lot of fire roads in the Bay Area hills. They >> will probably gravitate towards the tire choices that best suit their riding >> predilections. >> >> I have not been in the Bay Area since 1981 and have never been to the >> Seattle area, so I don't know what the road conditions are like. If the Bay >> Area roads are anything like the atrocious minefields that Minneapolis and >> St. Paul have become over the past 10-15 years and especially after this >> winter, stout tires are probably a good idea. The Twin Cities have both cut >> way back on road maintenance and repairs, going to a complaint-based rather >> than a proactive model (basically they have to get a certain number of phone >> calls about a pothole or other road problem before they go out to fix it). >> I'd probably shred a Grand Bois in one ride around here nowadays. >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. > > > > -- > Bill Gibson > Tempe, Arizona, USA > -- > 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
