I commuted across town for several years on 559 X 32 mm non-Tourguard Paselas. They ride well for the price, but FWIW, I found them rather delicate (sidewalls started to decay after a year or so in the sun; I once scraped an inch of tread off the rear casing with an unplanned skid), and very liable to goathead -- and other types of -- flats. I found Kojaks to roll as well and to be far less liable to punctures and damage.
Perhaps the 700C X 38s have a thicker tread? The 559 X 32 (1.25") models weighed only 240 grams on a mail scale. On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:19 AM, EasyRider <peter.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have 700x38 Panaracer Paselas on my Rosco, in the non-tourguard version. > A new pair go for about $50. I have the same tire in 32 on an RBT and had > 1.75s on a Trek 950 before swapping out to Big Bens out of boredom. Most of > my 14 mile daily roundtrip commute is on bike paths and city streets, and > I can't remember the last time I got a flat with plain old Paselas. If I > were going to ride a lot on road shoulders I'd probably look to a Schwalbe > Marathon or the like. Besides the Barlow Pass, I'm interested in the 700x40 > Clement Xplors. > > -- 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.
