The tread pattern on my RTP is the same as the one on my 700C Stampedes. A fatter 26" tire with this minimal herringbone road tread will definitely look pretty smooth.
Since this is RBW, here are their tips on tires: https://www.rivbike.com/kb_results.asp?ID=58 <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-72PXP5SEvew/V7mTGAdEfXI/AAAAAAAAHhg/I9kH3HpecX80AWml_hLy8zcMsrbGDPumwCLcB/s1600/jack%2Bbrown.jpg> Jack Brown *Tread for RoadsOn dry asphalt, the road embeds itself into the tire, so you'll get the best traction with a slick, which increases the contact patch with the road. Once the road is damp or wet, some kind of tread helps. This violates some tire-grip theories out there, but I quit riding pure slicks in the winter when I started scratching out on steep climbs, and slipping around corners. Tread helps in the wet, but you don't need a lot of it, just some. That's why the Roll-y Pol-y and Ruffy Tuffy and Jack Brown have the tread they do. Half smooth, half slight tread, and it seems to work. (When you ride on a wet road, just watch it around corners. No crash due to slipping is ever the tire's fault. Even if somebody made an oil-impregnated tire that oozed oil constantly as part of the Plan, it's still your job to figure out what you can and can't do on the tire.)* On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 7:45:12 PM UTC-4, Rod Holland wrote: > > They're certainly not cheap, but they're also not bald. Low profile file > tread. Pretty grippy, in my experience. Not Paselas, different feel, but > also not Kojaks... and not water skis... > > rod > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
