I have Maxxis Velocita 700x40 because that’s what @EndpointBraden was recommending at the time I was purchasing tires. The winds of tire purchasing have since shifted? As they are wont to to do.
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I think reens with sealant inside are fine for city riding. I have no problems in NYC and I used to flat all the damn time before sealant, no matter the thickness of the tire (up to and including schwalbe marathon supremes).
Those are still good for sure. It’s never a bad idea to get a Maxxis or Vittoria tire in your desired size way.
Finally got my tires today. Open them up and guess what? I accidentally ordered 650bx28 conti 5000s. WTF. Hopefully I can exchange them or even just return.
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Skinny 650b?
Paging @Orc
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They have 650 x 32 in the new GP5k model as well!
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My Coffee Grinder has a mixed wheelset. Front is DT whatever and happily accepted one of those $13 Specialized Sawtooth tires. Rear is Sun-Ringle (Stan’s licensed), and that same tire absolutely will not mount. I’d had this issue before with folding WTB tires and Stan’s combos. Had a brand new wire bead WTB Horizon in my pile, and it mounted right up!
Bikes suck, don’t ride them.
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Pretty bold assuming the company that made their 650b rim the wrong size, and has been making the same 700c rim the wrong size for decades, isn’t at fault in this scenario.
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I have a great deal of respect for Josh Poertner:
Yeah, but fuck Dylan Johnson
I don’t know what to think. Maybe I need to grab a wire bead 700c WTB tire to try to mount to a 700c Sun-Ringle (Stan’s) rim for more data. I have such a rim in a different mixed wheelset.
anyone have any recs for a FAST gravel tire in about 35mm? i have a set of Clement X’Plor i ride around on but they’re PIGS and i need to WIN RACES.
what’s the beef with dylan johnson? i genuinely have no idea. what the consensus is on the guy
I think garbage takes about transgender athletes.
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My recollection of his take on trans athletes were that transgender females had physiological advantages in cycling over AFAB.
There’s plenty of science to support that assertion.
I don’t recall if he offered an opinion on how to address that issue, but it’s certainly a contentious one.
I love how every time trans athlete bad takes bob up, everyone gets to point out the wild diversity of body types and ascribed advantages all kinds of people have. Like yes, professional swimmer with ten foot long arms, let’s talk about who has an unfair advantage
There’s a debate about what’s fair and what’s “natural” and all that. That’s unsolvable from my perspective, but I don’t care so much about competitive sports.
The science is fairly solved and folks on one side of the debate often either don’t understand it or simply disregard it.
Folks on the other side of the debate often fail to consider the degree of impact these decisions might have on folks struggling with their gender identity.
If you can grasp that trans women are women, then the whole idea of there being a “debate” quickly resolves into bad faith nonsense.
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One wishes it were that simple and dismissing the host of concerns about what’s fair by doing so is bad faith nonsense.
Women’s sports categories exist because there are distinct physiological differences between folks that were exposed to testosterone in utero and folks that weren’t. Those differences become more distinct when folks undergo puberty with testes vs those that don’t. Those physiological differences can’t be entirely reversed.
In the simple world of the gender binary, all the “women” were lumped into that category because of those physiological differences. For the purposes of establishing the sporting competition the physiological differences were what led to an easy categorization.
Trans women are most certainly women, but they are physiologically distinct from AFAB folks to some extent or other depending on their specific circumstances. Which puts the onus on the organizers of a sporting competition to delve into the details of a transition, which isn’t cool at all.
I’m not making any assertions about what’s fair or how to solve the problem. Ultimately, I think that nobody wins.
Edit: I went back and re-watched the DJ video on the topic. He quotes a bunch of research and then offers an opinion at the end of it that it’s a tradeoff between inclusion and fairness.
agreed