Fat tires and le Tour

Anyone know the last year a 25mm tire was used by a racing cyclist
in the TdF?

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On Feb 23, 9:24*am, pm wrote:
Anyone know the last year a 25mm tire was used by a racing cyclist
in the TdF?

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Don't know about the TdF, but racers do use 25-28mm wide tires, and
perhaps fatter, in some of the classics like PR....

On Feb 23, 11:24*am, pm wrote:
Anyone know the last year a 25mm tire was used by a racing cyclist
in the TdF?

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Sometime during the Lance era they covered some cobbled sections used
in Paris Roubaix. Probobly then...

On Feb 23, 12:24*pm, pm wrote:
Anyone know the last year a 25mm tire was used by a racing cyclist
in the TdF?

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Moron--

Post this agian in July for full effect.

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:16:49 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Feb 23, 11:24*am, pm wrote:
Anyone know the last year a 25mm tire was used by a racing cyclist
in the TdF?

[cT = 0.95]

Sometime during the Lance era they covered some cobbled sections used
in Paris Roubaix. Probably then...

Dear Brian,

You may be thinking of Stage 4 the 2004 TDF, where Hamilton and the
Phonak team used 19 mm tires and flatted repeatedly, finishing the
team time trial with 5 riders:

"Phonak looked so strong, what went wrong? It didn't help that they
used 19 mm tires during the team trial. As Lance puts it, 'In the Team
Time Trial they would have been close even with 3 or 4 flat tires, the
only thing I go to there is: it was a terrible day, terrible
weather--why do you put on the 19mm tires? You don't do that. We rode
with the biggest, heaviest nastiest tires we have. Because you know on
days like that you get flats.'"
http://www.eugenewei.com/mtweblog/archives/002272.html

Unfortunately, "biggest, heaviest nastiest" is not an ISO/ETRTO tire
size, so it's hard to say how wide Armstrong's tires were.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Feb 23, 12:24*pm, pm wrote:
Anyone know the last year a 25mm tire was used by a racing cyclist
in the TdF?

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Prolly last year. The wider tires are better for smuggling ones
"preparations". Watch out this year for those teams that have
discovered the performance benefits of 700 x 38 tires.

On 28 Feb, 07:52, wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:16:49 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Feb 23, 11:24*am, pm wrote:
Anyone know the last year a 25mm tire was used by a racing cyclist
in the TdF?

[cT = 0.95]

Sometime during the Lance era they covered some cobbled sections used
in Paris Roubaix. *Probably then...

Dear Brian,

You may be thinking of Stage 4 the 2004 TDF, where Hamilton and the
Phonak team used 19 mm tires and flatted repeatedly, finishing the
team time trial with 5 riders:

"Phonak looked so strong, what went wrong? It didn't help that they
used 19 mm tires during the team trial. As Lance puts it, 'In the Team
Time Trial they would have been close even with 3 or 4 flat tires, the
only thing I go to there is: it was a terrible day, terrible
weather--why do you put on the 19mm tires? You don't do that. We rode
with the biggest, heaviest nastiest tires we have. Because you know on
days like that you get flats.'"
*http://www.eugenewei.com/mtweblog/archives/002272.html

Unfortunately, "biggest, heaviest nastiest" is not an ISO/ETRTO tire
size, so it's hard to say how wide Armstrong's tires were.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

35mm section with 3mm thick tread?
TJ