We drove to Duluth today to do a little shopping and returned home a little late to bother with a ride of any distance.
I stopped in at a few of the bike shops down there to eye up the tires and settled on a pretty damned slick Michelin Dynamic 700x32c Touring "road" tires. I had hoped to land a set of 28-30 instead but after mounting them the 32 seem plenty skinny. Took them out for a quick run 1/4 mile or so and back before it was completely dark and holy shit the beast is fast now. Of course I'm not rolling huge 29x2.0 knobby tires but still whizzz zoooom. I did not have the computer set up for the tires yet so no real numbers to back me up.
Yesterday after work I felt guilty about not commuting even though it had been raining so in preparation for New Tire Day I rode out 5 miles and back to get a nice even time off of 10 miles - 44 minutes and change. Hopefully the weather holds out and sunday I can test run the new tires and compare times.
Also in Duluth I snagged a new CamelBack for a good price at the sport shop, new toys galore!
I stopped in at a few of the bike shops down there to eye up the tires and settled on a pretty damned slick Michelin Dynamic 700x32c Touring "road" tires. I had hoped to land a set of 28-30 instead but after mounting them the 32 seem plenty skinny. Took them out for a quick run 1/4 mile or so and back before it was completely dark and holy shit the beast is fast now. Of course I'm not rolling huge 29x2.0 knobby tires but still whizzz zoooom. I did not have the computer set up for the tires yet so no real numbers to back me up.
Yesterday after work I felt guilty about not commuting even though it had been raining so in preparation for New Tire Day I rode out 5 miles and back to get a nice even time off of 10 miles - 44 minutes and change. Hopefully the weather holds out and sunday I can test run the new tires and compare times.
Also in Duluth I snagged a new CamelBack for a good price at the sport shop, new toys galore!
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