Tyres for my wife's bike
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My wife has a women's specialized rockhopper which she has had for quite a few years. It is only used when we do family bike rides.
On our ride yesterday, she was complaining that she was finding it hard to keep up (the kids are getting faster than her now, where as they have always been the limiting factor before). The ride was fairly flat, we did about 30km.
We ended up swapping bikes around to see if it was the bike, I found a slight drag on the front disc every rotation, so the disc is perhaps warped which I'll take as look at, and the tyres certainly seem to make it harder work than they need to. They have Specialized tyres on which may well be the originals, and they are quite big chunky of road tyres.
She only ever rides on the road or on paths like canal tow paths so the chunky tyres are unnecessary.
I was just looking on planet X and they have some commuter type tyres for £8 a piece which look like they might work.
The wheels are 26".
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYVITATGW/vittoria-adventure-tech-g-wired-tyre
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYVIRANDTECH/vittoria-randonneur-tech-g-rigid-tyre
Would either of those be better? Would they both fit OK?
On our ride yesterday, she was complaining that she was finding it hard to keep up (the kids are getting faster than her now, where as they have always been the limiting factor before). The ride was fairly flat, we did about 30km.
We ended up swapping bikes around to see if it was the bike, I found a slight drag on the front disc every rotation, so the disc is perhaps warped which I'll take as look at, and the tyres certainly seem to make it harder work than they need to. They have Specialized tyres on which may well be the originals, and they are quite big chunky of road tyres.
She only ever rides on the road or on paths like canal tow paths so the chunky tyres are unnecessary.
I was just looking on planet X and they have some commuter type tyres for £8 a piece which look like they might work.
The wheels are 26".
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYVITATGW/vittoria-adventure-tech-g-wired-tyre
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYVIRANDTECH/vittoria-randonneur-tech-g-rigid-tyre
Would either of those be better? Would they both fit OK?
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Really good on puncture rrsistance as well.
https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-parts/bike-tyres/schwalbe-kojak-wired-bike-tyre-26in-583031.html used to be well regarded for realtively fast tarmac rides in hybrids/MTBs.
https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-parts/bike-tyres/schwalbe-smart-sam-folding-bike-tyre-26in-487495.html and Schwalbe Landcruisers used to be decent on tarmac and no-gnarr offroad.
https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-parts/bike-tyres/schwalbe-big-apple-reflex-bike-tyre-26in-583130.html are nice for adding comfort on tarmac and light offroad, if the frame and fork can take them, as these 2.35" "balloon" tyres were designed to be ridden at ~30PSI and still not be too draggy.
Never ridden those two Vittoria models.
2020 Voodoo Marasa
2017 Cube Attain GTC Pro Disc 2016
2016 Voodoo Wazoo
The rims are Mavic 117
won't slip or slide - all is fine. its just a fat version of a slick road bike tyre.
they weigh twice as much as the Fat Boys (790 vs 309 according to Google searches) and they're the wrong size - he wants 26"
if he wants to slow his wife down then yeah, crack on.
Fat Boys have puncture protection, are light, fast, look cool and have a funky name. its all about minimal effort for maximum hacking around.
Fat boy all the way and mug off that £7.99 tat.
slick = speed.
speed = good.
ally saves lives
what more can anyone want?
go for the Fat Boys but don't come running to us when she burns you off.
https://www.schwalbe.com/en/mtb-reader/hurricane
what you on about Willis?
Don't you want her to have fun and attract younger, fitter, more glamorous men with more hair and better jobs, cars, houses, career prospects, more money and a far more exhaustive and exciting array of night time activities?
Fat Boy.
End of.