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WIDE 27" road/touring tires?
This is a spin off to a current thread on 27" tires (looking for
narrow treads). Of the current production tires available (27x1 1/4), what is the widest road/touring tire? I'm looking for a tad more cush in my ride and a bit more robustness for rough roads or hardpack trails. My past experience with bike and car tires is the listed sizes can be dramatically different from reality. I'm guessing there are probably some 1 1/4" tires that are wider than some 1 3/8" tires. I'm aware of two 1 3/8' tires, but both are knobbies. I've been to several LBS and about half don't even stock anything in 27". The shops that do typically only have one or maybe two. They all seem to stock the same 2 Specialized tri-sports and maybe one of the armadillo models. That makes mail ordering tires difficult. I can't see/feel/measure it to be able to make a fair comparison. I currently have Specialized Nimbus tires (great all around tread) and have great success with this rubber. From memory it was one of the wider tires available at the time (about 15 yrs ago), but is sadly no longer available. Anyone with experience in the old 27 inchers have advice on a wide road/touring type tire (that is actually currently available)? Thanks, Tracy |
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Pizza Man wrote: This is a spin off to a current thread on 27" tires (looking for narrow treads). Of the current production tires available (27x1 1/4), what is the widest road/touring tire? I'm looking for a tad more cush in my ride and a bit more robustness for rough roads or hardpack trails. Anyone with experience in the old 27 inchers have advice on a wide road/touring type tire (that is actually currently available)? _ http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/tires/630.html _ Booker C. Bense |
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Anyone with experience in the old 27 inchers have advice
on a wide road/touring type tire (that is actually currently available)? I rode 27-inch tyres for nearly forty years [late Fifties until mid-Nineties], and my favourite was the Michelin World Tour 27x1-1/4" (32-630) which is still currently in production and available from many dealers. I rode the wider Michelin Hi-Lite Tour 27x1-3/8" (35-630) for a while, but it was not robust enough for my style of touring ["Everything but the Kitchen Sink"]. It was a folding tyre, however, so I carried one as a spare. -- "Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes, it has not died out." -- The Daily Telegraph (1877) |
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Pizza Man wrote:
This is a spin off to a current thread on 27" tires (looking for narrow treads). Of the current production tires available (27x1 1/4), what is the widest road/touring tire? I'm looking for a tad more cush in my ride and a bit more robustness for rough roads or hardpack trails. My past experience with bike and car tires is the listed sizes can be dramatically different from reality. I'm guessing there are probably some 1 1/4" tires that are wider than some 1 3/8" tires.-snip- Anyone with experience in the old 27 inchers have advice on a wide road/touring type tire (that is actually currently available)? Michelin World Tour is about 35mm wide -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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(Chalo) wrote in message . com...
(Pizza Man) wrote: Anyone with experience in the old 27 inchers have advice on a wide road/touring type tire (that is actually currently available)? Michelin World Tour, as someone else mentioned. It's much wider and taller than most other 27 x 1 1/4" tires, durable, smooth-rolling, and cheap. Chalo Colina Wow! What great info. The Michelin World Tour sounds perfect. The links were very useful as well. Ride on! TR |
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i was distraught when the kenda 3 circumferentially ribbed at $5 went
outa stock.A nice tire. but gone they are. and for good reason! no circumferential kevlar belt. the C.kevlar(or by any other name would smell as sweet) belt is unstretchable-the tire stays round under load reducing rolling friction. and prevents shards from entering the tube area. so no 3 rib kendas to kick around. the 1x3/8" kenda did have a good feel to it over sandy asphalt. other riders snot at it for the width as all men ride narrow tires and only... The Conti TT is on this continent(search the euro Conti site for other sizes)is 1/4" but the aramid(phew)belts run every which way. The tire has a very round cross section with less than usual interior tube space. The feel from the kenda is thus quite different. but the TT does everything but pick yawl up and spread antibio over the roadrash its forgiveness is remarkable. slide kelly slide. automatic corrections. good for the scenery or internal thought inkneebriated. also very good in portland. |
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i was distraught when the kenda 3 circumferentially ribbed at $5 went
outa stock.A nice tire. but gone they are. and for good reason! no circumferential kevlar belt. the C.kevlar(or by any other name would smell as sweet) belt is unstretchable-the tire stays round under load reducing rolling friction. and prevents shards from entering the tube area. so no 3 rib kendas to kick around. the 1x3/8" kenda did have a good feel to it over sandy asphalt. other riders snot at it for the width as all men ride narrow tires and only... The Conti TT is on this continent(search the euro Conti site for other sizes)is 1/4" but the aramid(phew)belts run every which way. The tire has a very round cross section with less than usual interior tube space. The feel from the kenda is thus quite different. but the TT does everything but pick yawl up and spread antibio over the roadrash its forgiveness is remarkable. slide kelly slide. automatic corrections. good for the scenery or internal thought inkneebriated. also very good in portland. |
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This is a repost because the other news server seems to be no longer
propagating messages very far. Email to me is just like email to my son, or talking to him for that matter: messages are not monitored or answered. In article , (George Herbert Walker) wrote: In article , (Pizza Man) wrote: Of the current production tires available (27x1 1/4), what is the widest road/touring tire? I'm looking for a tad more cush in my ride and a bit more robustness for rough roads or hardpack trails. Probably Michelin World Tour, which will measure about 32-33mm on the rim. Second would be Continental Top Touring, which would be about 29mm on the rim. The Top Touring is probably a better tire but costs something like 3x the price. Weights are similar. An addition to the list of available 27" tires that I forgot to mention: Continental Super Sport 1000 in both 27x1-1/4 and 27x1-1/8. -- TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Please excuse the inconvenience allegedly caused by our son. Send us the bill for all the damages, and we can settle this to your satisfaction, without any need for a public record of the incident. Most Sincerely, George and Bar |
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