My RoadUno has ~41mm tires and fenders. It's fantastic for mostly paved riding that I used it for. My "go fast" (non-Riv) road bike has 33mm tires and fenders. It's nice when I want a zippy, connected feeling (more road feedback). I'd echo the sentiment that certain bikes do seem to have tire widths that suit them best.
-Dave On Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 10:55:18 AM UTC-4 John Dewey wrote: > Mr. Silca, aka Josh Poertner, was the Cervello team techie before he > created those beautiful Silca track pumps. He’s a bright interesting > fellow, quite knowledgeable. > > He says keep lowering pressure until you to get to the low-pressure limit > for your tires and weight and when you get to that point you’ll have the > potential to reach your maximum pace. > > I have a good riding pal who years ago raved about his 19mm tires. When we > thought skinny was fastest. Ouch!!! > > Now maybe that’s true for a wooden velodrome, but thank goodness no longer > the recipe for our bombed-out roads. > > Jock > > > On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM Nick A. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I started out with 700x42 Soma Supple Vitesse tires on my Atlantis >> (probably closer to 40mm). It wasn't until trying a set of 700x50 Soma >> Cazaderos that I realized I didn't like the handling with the 42s. Seemed >> like the Atlantis "wanted" a bigger tire. I found a sweet spot in the >> Gravelking Slick 700x43 (45mm actual), probably my favorite tires to date >> for mostly paved riding. >> >> On Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 8:30:27 AM UTC-4 John at Rivendell wrote: >> >>> No. >>> >>> On Friday, May 9, 2025 at 2:38:12 PM UTC-7 Ben Miller wrote: >>> >>>> I recently went from 55 to 45 mm tyres on my Hunq, so I could run the >>>> new 2025 GK's in Cranberry. I'll be running those til Ultradynamico makes >>>> their Mars 700's in red! >>>> >>>> One thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet, is that the copy for the >>>> Joe on the Riv site it says: "Ideal for tires between 1.5-inches and >>>> 2.2-inches" which is 38mm at the low end. Might want to shoot for >>>> something more like 700x40's to be on the safe side. And there are a lot >>>> of >>>> great tyres in that size! >>>> >>>> On Friday, May 9, 2025 at 1:57:09 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: >>>> >>>>> I haven’t “gone back” to skinnier tires on my favorite 1999 custom >>>>> road fixed gear Rivendell, but I have chosen to use Rene Herse’s >>>>> superlatively smooth and fast-rolling 559 X 27 mm (actual on my narrow >>>>> rims; 32 mm labeled) Elk Passes instead of the 42 cm (39 actual) Naches >>>>> Passes because the bike just feels more nimble besides seeming to roll >>>>> with >>>>> less effort. By this last I mean that consistently over the same terrain >>>>> in >>>>> the same conditions in the same gear at the same cadences the 1999 seems >>>>> easier to pedal with the EPs versus the NPs. >>>>> >>>>> I think I’d certainly notice a difference at least on a good *road >>>>> bike* between 2” tires and 35s, and if I had your question, I’d >>>>> answer it by having 2 wheelsets, one for 50s and one for 35s, with >>>>> appropriate gearing. >>>>> >>>>> That said, I have no idea if an Appaloosa would handle nicely with >>>>> 35s. I do recall how badly my road-ified (drop bars, road gearing, road >>>>> tires) early ‘90s mountain bikes* handled* with 559 X 23 mm >>>>> Specialized Turbos, otherwise very nice tires indeed despite their width >>>>> that rolled very well and were suprisingly smooth on pavement. >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM Michael Morrissey < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm riding my Appaloosa with 29x2.0" tires (aka 700 by 50mm), and >>>>>> after doing the Five Boro Bike Tour, I was thinking about going to >>>>>> skinnier >>>>>> tires. But, I'm not sure about it. I enjoy the comfort and ability to >>>>>> hop >>>>>> curbs that comes with the current tire size. >>>>>> >>>>>> Has anyone here gone back to, let's say 700x35 tires on their bike >>>>>> instead of the big 2" tires? 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