Paul,
After Thursday's incident, I cannot recommend Vittoria Rallye 700C-23's highly enough. At the point that I went down, the tyres had 895 cyclometerd miles in the, and the profil on the rear was absolute flattop, to the point that I was expecting failure any mile now, and checking the tyre daily.
When the rear wheel locked up on me, the bike skidded at least 30 yards before flipping me off. Inspection afterwards showed that: a. I still had an estimated 50-100 miles of life left in the tyre, b. The kevlar belt held, and c., the tyre is still holding pressure. Were it not for the broken wrist, it'd probably gotten me home under pedal power.
I run the Vittorias at 90-99psi, religiously check the pressure every morning, and pick them up for $19.99 at the local Performance Bike shop.
I'm bloody pleased with them.
George R. "Syke" Paczolt
Montpelier, VA
Deranged Few M/C
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:37:29 -0600
> From: Paul Cooley <pcooley@cybermesa.com>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Arc En Ciel Rims
> Message: 7
>
> Now that I have my trash-picked PX-10, I've been
> thinking of putting my
> trash-picked Campy hubbed wheelset on it. I was
> wondering about the
> rims. They're Super Champion tubular rims with an
> Arc En Ciel decal on
> them. I don't know anything about that brand, or
> what the arc en ciel
> is supposed to mean. I have seen it mentioned as
> being on some PX-10
> frames. For the most part, I don't care that much
> about things being
> vintage or matching up, but in the interest of
> asking, would the rims
> be too out of place on a PX-10? What does the arc
> en ciel mean?
>
> And as for tubulars. Being 40, I've never used
> them. Is there a good
> low-end tubular I could try the rims out with? I
> don't want to spend
> much. I'll keep the steel Araya Rims with the
> Normandy Luxe
> Competition hubs around for everyday use. Santa Fe
> is goathead city,
> and it has always looked like tubulars are a real
> bear to patch. I'm
> afraid I have to rely on Slime to get anywhere this
> time of year
> without having to patch a flat. I have always been
> curious about
> tubulars, and I have the rims, so it seems I may as
> well use them.
>
> Paul B. Cooley
> Santa Fe, NM
> http://carfreefamily.blogspot.com
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