On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 11:51 -0400, robert zeidler wrote: > Or the endless opinion that fatter tires are every bit as fast as > skinny tires. No way. More comfortable? Absolutely. Better on dirt? > For sure. Not faster. If that were the case, does anyone believe > that the entire bicycle, and tire industry would not jump at the task > to supply the entire racing/fast recreational community with new > frames and rubber? Come on all you anti-corporate people out there, > of course they would! >
This sounds like yet another iteration of the old "if wide tires were better than 700x23 clinchers the racers would use them." However, it turns out, those 700x23 clinchers you've been seeing the racers use are nothing of the sort: they are tubulars disguised to make them look like clinchers. (And it's well known, due to their construction and the shape of the rims for them, tubulars of a given size ride like clinchers that are several mm wider.) Do you see anybody actively marketing sew-ups to the recreational make-believe-they-are-racers community? Of course not. They simply perpetuate the lie that those narrow clinchers are what the racers are using. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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.
