Timeline for Wider tires offering faster speeds and safer ride?
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| Sep 26, 2018 at 6:25 | comment | added | jake mckenzie | So I ended up going with a wider tire. The person at the bike shop ended up reiterating a lot of what was said here by various people without my prompting. I appreciate everyone's feedback. Tacoma has a lot of old roads, I go over train tracks and it's a daily commute. I would rather it be safer and more comfortable. If it does end up being faster that's a bonus. | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 6:23 | vote | accept | jake mckenzie | ||
| Sep 25, 2018 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBicycles/status/1044602636853489665 | ||
| Sep 24, 2018 at 16:13 | answer | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 15:38 | answer | added | Adam Rice | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 15:08 | comment | added | Andy P | There is sadly very little published evidence. Schwalbe used to have a nice couple of pages (in a pdf I think) of the research they did into MTB tyres at low pressure where they found on even the most mild off road surface wider and lower pressure was faster, but I cant find it any more. They do still have a little generic information about contact patch etc on the website. It would be nice if all tyres had to be submitted to an independant body for testing and graded accordingly (similar to how wet performance, noise and economy are graded for car tyres). | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 13:22 | answer | added | Argenti Apparatus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 12:24 | comment | added | David Richerby | Honestly, I'm not sure that tyre choice is going to make any difference to a collision with a tree branch that's big enough to send you over the bars. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 12:12 | comment | added | Argenti Apparatus | I don't understand why this gets flagged as opinion based when OP is specifically asking for published hard evidence. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 9:07 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | Getting back into riding after a problem can be hard - both mentally and physically. Not dupes, but worth checking bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/42383 and bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/52340 and links therein. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 6:59 | comment | added | jake mckenzie | It would be commuting in Tacoma Washington. So a lot of rain and older roads. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 6:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 24, 2018 at 6:40 | answer | added | Yaroslav Voytovych | timeline score: -4 | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 6:36 | comment | added | Grigory Rechistov | What kind of riding you are referring to? Is it MTB XC, MTB DH, trail, road racing, gravel racing etc.? | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 6:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 24, 2018 at 6:22 | history | asked | jake mckenzie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |