Be careful about buying Schwalbe Big Apple tires. For many years (well over 15 IIRC) I had a pair of Schwalbe Big Apple 26x2.35" tires on my Surly 1x1 and I loved everything about them. They finally came to the end of the road this Summer when I rode across a stretch of pavement where construction workers had pulled the nails out of wooden forms for an adjacent concrete sidewalk and carelessly left them lying all over the place. So I went to buy a new pair on-line and due to unclear and evasive descriptions of Schwalbe models I wound up mistakenly ordering a pair of 2.15" Big Apple Plus tires. They're ridiculously heavy (>750 gm's) and they ride like motorcycle tires due to the 3mm of protection guard. Wish I'd been more careful
P.S. If anyone out there is more interested in flat-proofness than ride quality I'd be willing to sell these tires for cheap. On Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 3:29:51 PM UTC-5, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > Ok, Friends, you’ve got me interested in the Schwalbe tires, and of those, > I think the Big Ben and the Big Apples sound good. I don’t know that I need > the tread of the Bens since I’m really a paved surface kinda gal. But I’m > open here! The next question is what size. I was out there with a > flashlight just now and I see the Clementine tires are Kenda “27.5 x 1.75.” > Just out of curiosity, I looked at my son’s 45 cm Clem, and he has Kenda > “26 x 2.10.” Can he really have fatter tires than me?! > > I’m asking you and not Rivendell because I probably won’t order tires from > them. > > You are lifesavers, > Leah -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/aad8ddcd-2e7f-449b-bee8-80e8bad7b470%40googlegroups.com.
