I agree with everyone about air pressure. I shipped my bike tomA Alaska and when I went to get the bike they had inflated my 700z50's to 60 psi. Because that was max inflation listed on the side. I notice most everyone on the tour riding gravel was riding almost mad pressure and weren't comfortable reducing that pressure.
Kelly On Sunday, August 5, 2012 2:57:01 PM UTC-5, Anne Paulson wrote: > I just last week got back from a 2500 mile tour, Mexico to Canada via > > the Sierra and the Cascades. Once again, as often happens, my riding > > companions sometimes complained that about rough roads. And once > > again, in the main I didn't notice the roads being rough, although the > > dirt detours that I took a time or two and my companions didn't were > > pretty bumpy in places. > > > > I'm at a loss to understand what I'm missing. This was a loaded tour. > > I was riding my Atlantis with 26 x 1.5 Panaracer Paselas, which should > > be comfortable tires, by my companions were riding fine touring bikes > > (Surly LHT, Co-Motion Americano, other touring bikes) with reasonable > > touring tires (mostly Schwalbe Marathons, one guy had Vittoria > > Randonneurs I think). Why are these fragile flowers noticing bad roads > > when I don't? What are they doing wrong, that they're riding touring > > bikes and complaining about chipseal? > > > > When I ride at home on unloaded bikes, my friends sometimes complain > > about bad roads when I don't, but I chalk that up to their insistence > > in riding 25 mm tires pumped up to 120 pounds while I'm happy on my > > Roadeo with 28 mm tires. > > > > -- > > -- Anne Paulson > > > > My hovercraft is full of eels -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/hx-OyZvAnMQJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
