I would just go with the barlows if you don't find yourself on grass or mud and don't ride getting out of the saddle on gravel hills very much. I'm riding Antelope Hills on a mtb turned gravel duty and they have been fantastic tires except if I get out of the saddle to push up some loose gravel. They seem to slip them, but that also has to do with me being as graceful as an elephant. The Steilacooms ELs make excellent cyclocross tires which is how I've been using them. Muddy, grassy, dirty stuff where I run them as fairly low pressure. They grip better than my Clements used to, but they also are wider than the UCI accepts. Not at all a concern with me, but there is more tread hitting the course than the Clements. I don't really ride the Steilacooms on the road too much, but from what I have done I've found they ride like a knobby tire rides on pavement, which is to say they are noisy.
I've gone tubeless on both setups and haven't experienced a flat yet. On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 12:26:49 AM UTC-5, Eric Karnes wrote: > Hi guys- > > I'm investing in some new tires for my paved path / gravel path rambler > and wanted to get some opinions. My usual ride for the rambler consists of > – surprise, surprise – about 50/50 asphalt and finely packed gravel (with a > few rougher sections). Any suggestions on whether to go with the Steilacoom > or more conventional Barlows? Do the Steilacooms really perform as well on > asphalt as the Compass website claims? Anyone have flat issues with the > extra light version of either? > > Thanks in advance! > > Eric > -- 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.
