Yes, In Winnipeg our roads look like the craters of the moon. I feel your pain, Tim. So...sturdy tires like the Paselas I've been using work for me On Friday, March 14, 2014 11:27:07 AM UTC-5, Tim McNamara 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.
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