[RBW] Jack Browns - Tires For The Future?
One of the main streets in my neighborhood has just been repaved. That's repaved, not the far more common re-surfacing/chip sealing. It is remarkably refreshing and evokes a certain nostalgia to ride on an excellent road surface. If this were the usual case I'd start considering 28mm cross-section tires rather than my default JBs. Given our continuing economic climate I'm thinking that nice roads surfaces are going to become even more unusual. I'm thinking the era of the fat road tire is upon us. Just sayin' -JimD -- 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.
Re: [RBW] Jack Browns - Tires For The Future?
On Sep 29, 2011, at 10:49 AM, jimD wrote: One of the main streets in my neighborhood has just been repaved. That's repaved, not the far more common re-surfacing/chip sealing. It is remarkably refreshing and evokes a certain nostalgia to ride on an excellent road surface. If this were the usual case I'd start considering 28mm cross-section tires rather than my default JBs. Given our continuing economic climate I'm thinking that nice roads surfaces are going to become even more unusual. I'm thinking the era of the fat road tire is upon us. Here in Minnesota that's been the case for a long time. Between the climate and political party intransigence, our roads are awful. We seem to keep building new roads but can't take care of the ones we have. Many cities here have eliminated doing preventive care like chip sealing (which extends the useful life of a road surface by up to 30 years, according to one road engineer I spoke to) to save money on the budget now- at the expense of spending 10 times as much in the future. The result is that we have six months of it being difficult to get around due to ice and snow, and six months of it being difficult to get around due to major road reconstruction because we didn't do good preventive maintenance. -- 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.
Re: [RBW] Jack Browns - Tires For The Future?
I think you are right. Fat cushy tires may be a requirement to ride deteriorated roads that cannot be repaved at the moment. Maybe there will be more bicycles out there due to the economics. I see more bicycle riders in my area than usual. On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:49 AM, jimD rasterd...@comcast.net wrote: One of the main streets in my neighborhood has just been repaved. That's repaved, not the far more common re-surfacing/chip sealing. It is remarkably refreshing and evokes a certain nostalgia to ride on an excellent road surface. If this were the usual case I'd start considering 28mm cross-section tires rather than my default JBs. Given our continuing economic climate I'm thinking that nice roads surfaces are going to become even more unusual. I'm thinking the era of the fat road tire is upon us. Just sayin' -JimD -- 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.
Re: [RBW] Jack Browns - Tires For The Future?
This is true in VT too. Most roads are in disrepair and the rest are under reconstruction! Routine maintenance is a bygone memory. If I have to dodge a lost muffler on Memorial Day I can expect to still be riding around it on Columbus Day. So I too, keep riding wider tires, and even though my Rambouillet is my all time favorite bike I am realizing my Ebisu, with 38C Avocets, gets more use, and I just squeezed Jack Browns onto my 84' Trek 620. I still like to map out routes that I can ride comfortably with 26 or 28 on the Ram. Still lots of young studs out there hunched over their 23's Michael -- 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/-/969n8-FDHocJ. 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.
