If you are not on the aeros, for sure. You are practically a windsock. I always have aero-bars on.
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A few tri companies allegedly designed their bikes around āage grouperā speeds for this reason.
Randonneurds should absolutely be thinking about this if their goals include anything beyond ādoing it just becauseā. 7+ hours is a long time and those marginal gains have quite a while to start stacking up.
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I feel seen
Iām not a randonerd and Iām not super fast but I do ride long and I firmly believe in taking every last marginal gain I can. Also I find grubbing for watts kind of fun
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I donāt follow? ādoing it just becauseā is why I do it, but that doesnāt mean Iām planning on puttering along at walking pace while Iām doing it.
Then youāre doing it for more than ājust becauseā. Just because is an excellent place to start. But if youāre thinking about your speed or how long itās going to take, or how long it took last time and maybe taking less time than that time before then you are already going down the rabbit hole. You know Conti makes skinny 650b GP5Ks right?
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You also have like 20cm of saddle to bar, so youāre ahead of 99% of randonerds.
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Speaking of GP5K I just saw that the tan TLRs areā¦99 USD?!
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Iāve got a bunch of them at home, and thatās what the upcoming disco frame is going to be built around, so, yes, Iām aware :-)
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See. You want to go faster.
Itās more that I donāt want to feel like Iām oozing about on a bed of slime.
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Article came out but itās Pro only and the four tires arenāt added to the regular listing.
Kinda surprised just how fast the EL casing is. This is the largest gravel tire BRR has tested and would rank #2 if the EL model was added to the full chart, 2nd only to the 32mm GP5k. At actual riding pressure, it would be around 5th place.
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WTB gave me 40% off of a new set of tires for my troubles. Went with Nanos with the extra puncture protection. Prob a little overkill for Rock Cobbler, but should be decently fastish.
Iām still waiting on my order from Bike24.
Damn, you ordered almost a month ago, right?
Yep. Have spent 2x as much on tires while waiting.
If Iām planning on commuting on a set of runny arse tires, should I spring for the endurance or endurance plus casing over the standard?
I have their knobbies on there now in the regular casing and they havenāt been the flat magnets I expected.
Or is there something else in 700c x 40-45mm smoothish tread that I should consider.
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if youāre just doing utility commuting on this bike, why not Schwalbe Marathons or their bigass cargo tires. Probably no good if this is partly a fun bike, but otherwise, itās hard to beat them
So many hills. I donāt want the weight penalty and when I had big apples on there it felt like it took forever to spin up.
Iām probably not riding through any of the really bad glassy sections of the city and I still have to carry it up two flights of stairs
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Yeah fair, I used to commute from Hayes Valley up and out to outer Sunset, is no fun with big tires. Maybe a middle ground between paper thin and moped tire? If you want to go big, Conti gp5k tr are pretty awesome and basically never flat
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I ran the standard casing 38mm guys setup for tubeless for quite some time with no flats. Probably a few thousand miles on Oakland streets. They didnāt seem especially delicate to me.