Timeline for Wider tires offering faster speeds and safer ride?
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| Sep 26, 2018 at 6:23 | vote | accept | jake mckenzie | ||
| Sep 24, 2018 at 15:33 | comment | added | Andy P | @ChrisH just goes to show that its mostly the engine that counts at the end of the day. I was reminded of this a couple of weeks ago when climbing the Tre Cime in the dolomites. Some guy on a MTB with knobblies flew past up the climb. What appeared to be national champions bands caught my attention, and it turned out to be Kristian Hynek of the Topeak Ergon team. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 15:04 | comment | added | Chris H | @AndyP there's a bloke in the Audax club who comes out on a gravel bike, with the same tyres as I've got on my MTB! He seems to have not trouble keeping up. I'm going from 35s to 32s on the tourer as I wear out the 35s but that's it as far as I'm concerned. I've tried commuting on 25s and it's not for me. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 15:02 | comment | added | Andy P | @ChrisH agreed - 'ordinary roads' in the UK are really draggy. A couple of years ago I turned up to the local race pace group ride on a gravel bike with 700x38's as my race bike was in the shop. Expected myself to get dropped pretty quickly (as did everyone else), but in the end, I found it was only slightly slower, and on some rougher sections of road was actually easier than on my race bike. In comparison, when riding on freshly surfaced roads in france, it feels like a 2% downhill when on the flat, and in this case i've no doubt skinny tires at high pressure would be considerably faster. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 14:13 | comment | added | Chris H | GCN's head office is near me, and I can recognise the roads in some of their videos. Many of the quiet ones (good for filming and putting bikes through their paces) are far from perfect even assuming you avoid the actual potholes. The contrast between those and the roads that had been made good enough for a TdF mountain stage 11 months previously is marked enough that I would trust people riding ordinary roads over conclusions from major pro racing | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 13:22 | history | answered | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |