Re: [RBW] Re: Little Big Ben first impressions
Decided to quickly measure my Baby Bens. They seem to be sitting between 36 and 37mm on Salsa Delgado rims. Our weather has been cool and it has been only five days. Do expect that in another few weeks they will relax out to 38 or so. Have noticed that so far, these tires are more U shaped on the Salsa rims. Rather than a full, round C shape that the Racers were. Still like the tires. They increase my confidence in riding the loose junk at the side of the road, aka spring road conditions in Minnesota. Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Jeff Lesperance jeff.lespera...@gmail.comwrote: 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/**photostreamhttp://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. -- 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.
[RBW] Re: Little Big Ben first impressions
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 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.
Re: [RBW] Re: Little Big Ben first impressions
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/**photostreamhttp://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.
