On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:22:11 -0400,
(Chris Z The Wheelman) wrote:

If you regularly ride a good portion of chip & tar (or as I like to call
it "40 grit") pavement I would seriously consider tires no less than
25mm wide.

Here in the Carolina Piedmont, where most secondary roads are of this
type, you almost never see anything narrower than 25mm, even on the top
level road racing machines.

Here in sunny, parched[1] Houston, there is an additional reason to
favor tires of greater width, with my preference being not to drop
below 30mm; we have *lots* of wide, open linear seams in our streets,
and wider tires traverse these much more safely and predictably than
narrow ones. (The presence of lots of small potholes and heaves also
mitigates in favor of the wider tires, due to their greater ability to
go over such obstructions without pinch-flatting.)

I have one roadie with 25mm tires; I have to exercise much greater
caution when riding it than with any of the other bikes in the stable.



[1] It's not raining at the moment.
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