RE: [CR]fat tires and skinny tires

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

From: "Robert D. Dayton,Jr." <rdayton@carolina.rr.com>
To: <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]fat tires and skinny tires
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:35:03 -0500
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I've always loved wheels and tires. It was always amazing what a few extra dollars could do to the feel of a bike. You could have a set of beater wheel clinchers. A good solid 32 3X 14 gauge setup. Take a likin and keep rollin rollin rollin And then the special wheels. With just the right cone adjustment, true and wearing a good tubular pumped up tight. Just for that one night a week with the club.

Anyway I don't know if tire age / technology is on/off topic, but I got some Tufo clincher/tubular 's I can't wait to try on my single speed Schwinn commuter.

Rob Dayton Charlotte,NC

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Schmidt Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 9:08 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]fat tires and skinny tires

There was an article in VeloNewsT back in the early or mid 1980s about tires in general and Continentals tires in particular written by a Continental tire engineer.

That was the first article I read that explained about tire pressure and tire size and tire rolling resistance and their relationships (pressure in a vessel of different sizes and the pressure [tension] at the surface).

This was back when 700x18 tires were all the rage (didn't make any sense to me). The engineer wrote that for a clincher to have the same feel as the typical 22mm section width tubular (sewup), the clincher would have to have a section width of 28mm. That's when I started riding 25mm width tires, usually marked 700x28 back then.

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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