Not talking about a few centimeters. That's never even been suggested. I'm talking about 12 or 20 mm bigger.
You're not going to determine what rolls faster by rolling down a hill and measuring with a stop watch. On Monday, August 6, 2012, Steve Palincsar wrote: > 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<javascript:;> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:;>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- 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.
