I use my Matthews 1:1 (2015 "road bike for dirt" designed to more or less fit, feel, and handle like a road bike while accommodating 60 mm tires, for our bosque sand, with a Q of no more than 160mm) -- where was I? Oh. I use this bike for rides that include substantial distances on pavement as well as on our (riverine sand; the "river" is El Rio Grande). I have 2 pavement only (or, for the 41 mm Naches Pass bike, "pavement mostly) and 1 riverine sand bike -- Monocog with 2.8" actuals at 13 psi, so this one is a betwixt and between.
Anyway, I've found that 2"+ tires at lowish pressures (as low as 20 psi for a 50 -- F Fred -- and 17 for the 61+ mm Big Ones) tend to wallow or hesitate when cornering on pavement; my sensation is of a dive into the corner cut short so that you end up running long: initial oversteer followed by understeer. It's not horrible, and if I heartily and deliberately, and almost in an exaggerated fashion, counter-steer, the bike turns in just fine. Note that Matthews 1:1 has, I think, a 71.5* head and 55 mm of rake. But I felt just the same things on my first-edition Fargo, with quite a bit more trail, IIRC. So I put this experience down to the tires. And, after that exhausting leadout, the questions: 1) What are your experiences with 50mm+ tires on pavement. That is, how do yours handle, at what pressures? 2) What pressures, for what width/s, do you find to minimize "wallow" in pavement turns? 3) Do some fat (50mm+) tires handle better on pavement than others? If so, what are they? Quoting Beryl Burton: "Ta!" Patrick Moore, in pleasant fall weather in ABQ, NM -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvXdFvPPtgaBjdZf_wkMmw6CUvhPTr7wFJv68RWSCMZUQ%40mail.gmail.com.
