RE: [CR]Tire Direction --> ???

(Example: Events:BVVW)

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:32:58 -0400
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: RE: [CR]Tire Direction --> ???
In-Reply-To: <bfe.33f0cc3b.3522b152@aim.com>
References: <200803311812.m2VIChML011099@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>


At 03:27 PM 31/03/2008 -0600, Michael Wilkinson wrote:
>I found some comments from Sheldon Brown that were precisely what Don has
>said, that the V should point toward the direction you are going.
>
>But, Sheldon made the point that tread patterns have very little function
>since the tread is not very deep.

I think this is precisely the point with bicycle tires. Except in the case of knobby MTB tires when they're actually used off-road, the tread pattern is probably just decorative.

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada