Anton, I installed a pair of these this morning. I measure 43mm from the start (I'm using 28mm wide Alesa rims, also I'm lacking digital calipers, so eyeballed with cheapo calipers). I was excited to install these, so I didn't really check them out too much, but I could've sworn I saw a narrow kevlar (?) strip for flat protection in the center. Anyone confirm this? I don't think I saw any info about that on BG's site. For a "knobby" tire they seem very supple and I'd classify the knob pattern as supple rubber as well, pretty flexible. I tried these out in a snow-filled park and was surprised how well the tires shedded snow. I was sort of expecting the knobs to get packed with snow. On pavement, I couldn't really tell much of a difference from a normal road tire. David Chicago
On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 6:13:13 PM UTC-6, Anton Tutter wrote: > > Bill, > > Have you measured the Rock & Roads? I'm curious how wide they measure > after being inflated and ridden a bit. I want to try these on my Stag with > Jeff Lyon fork, but the GB crown only offers about 52-54mm of clearance, so > the max safe tire width is about 43-45mm. Also, is there any humming noise > from the knobbies on pavement? > > Anton > > > On Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 7:16:00 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >> The tires did great on my wildcat loop. A lot of the recent rain has >> dried up, so there were only a few true bogs, and most of those had a good >> line worn through. The really wet gloopy ones with that oily wildcat mud >> were the pleasant surprise. That wet stuff the tires cleaned really well. >> There was only one stretch where that wet stuff had dried just enough to >> be the right peanut butter consistency to pack up the tires. That was >> right before I hit the road so the first mile or so included my tires >> shooting little blobs of mud and pebbles back up at me. >> >> Anybody who thinks these don't look like good road tires, I guarantee you >> will be pleasantly surprised. they roll really nicely > > -- 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.
