This conversation makes me think more and more of going to tubeless hetres but I don't think the rims (synergies) are up to the task.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Mike Schiller <mikeybi...@rocketmail.com>wrote: > I ride some pretty rough singletrack and dirt roads on Grand Bois Hetres > and they work great. The wider tires at lower pressures seem to be much > less flat prone. I didn't have such good luck with the 32 mm Cypres tires. > And if you want to see Jan on some rough roads with Hetres, just have a > peek at the latest issue of BQ. > > So for me, I'll take an occasional flat over dead feeling tires any day of > the week. > > ~mike > Carlsbad Ca. > > > On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:27:07 AM UTC-7, 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. > > -- > 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.
