Now, I don't ride fast. And because of that, rarely ride with others. And the skinniest tire I have is a 700x37. But if wider is always faster, then the Surly Moonlander with the 4.5 inch wide, incredibly supple tires must the the fastest bike out there.
(As Jim Thill can attest, we rode with a guy on a Surly Pugsley last year who could keep up with anyone. He passed me at nearly 40mph on one downhill and later chased and caught up with a tandem during some rolling hills.) Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:16 PM, robert zeidler <zeidler.rob...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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. >> 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. >> >> -- > 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. > -- 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.
