I have the lil' bens on my LHT - my rear wheel has a 24.5mm wide Alex Adventurer rim, and the lil' ben measures 38mm there and I have a Mavic Dyad on the front, a 24mm wide rim, and the lil' ben measures 38mm, maybe 38.5 there.
To note, I recently switched to the lil' ben's from a set of 700x45 Resist Nomads, that measured in around 42mm on the same rims. The lil' ben's are nice, though I only have about 50 miles on them so I can't give a full review yet, but man, I have to say, those Resist Nomad's have got to be the best bang for the buck tire I've ridden in a long time. Sure the extra volume helps, so it's not fair to compare the two tires to each other, but it has me wishing there was a size between the big ben and lil' ben so I could fit them with fenders on most any of my rides. I'm going to give the lil' ben's a fair chance for sure, but I miss the plush ride the Nomads gave. -Jeff On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Rusty Click <click...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Eric, > > I'm also looking at putting the Lil Ben's on my Hillborne. Do they come > close to the advertised 700X38? I know the Schwalbe Greenguards I'm > running are closer to 35's. > > BTW, that's a great looking set-up you have there! > > Cheers, > > Rusty > > > On Saturday, April 6, 2013 9:13:53 PM UTC-4, EricP wrote: >> >> Was able to get a 35 mile ride today and only got partly soaked by the >> rain. Installed the Schwalbe Baby Big Bens on the Hillborne last night. >> They are definitely heavier than the Marathon Racers they replaced. Didn't >> notice then being any slower. Could be that I'm not fast in the first >> place. Didn't do any non-paved riding as it has been too wet. Was able to >> ride with confience on the sides of the road where there is a lot of >> gravel, sand and other detrius leftover from the winter. Quite a bit more >> confidence inspiring than the Racers. >> >> Again, it's only one ride, and other folks may have entirely different >> impressions of the tires. But I like 'em. >> >> Photo of them on the Hillborne - http://www.flickr.com/photos/** >> 14126468@N05/8626421738/in/**photostream<http://www.flickr.com/photos/14126468@N05/8626421738/in/photostream> >> >> Eric Platt >> St. Paul, MN >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
