Yes, the benefit of casing suppleness is principally lower rolling resistance, though I find that more supple tires are also more comfortable at a given tire pressure (and, OTOH, that they often require a higher pressure to avoid sidewall flop than do tires with stiffer sidewalls).
We've got 2 questions going on here, optimum wheel size and casing suppleness. I rather think that the question of how wheel size affects handling is more "esoteric" than that of casing suppleness, which I guess is available to anyone who rides above a jogging speed. On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:47 PM, panog <panogiannio...@gmail.com> wrote: > The principal benefit of the greater suppleness is reduced rolling > resistance, reduced hysteric losses and thus greater speed for the same > watt input. > The real question though is at which point we have diminishing returns. I > dont think that this is a one-answer-fits-all as I believe its greatly > dependent on the ability and expertise of the rider and his equipment to > harness the marginal increase in performance. > -- 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.
