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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Suspension losses
Date: 21 Jun 2025 16:48:50 GMT
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Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 6/21/2025 3:59 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> On 6/20/2025 4:43 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Who is saying they should ride 40mm tyres?
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve seen some reviews of 40mm road tyres which broadly comes down to
>>>> comfortable but almost certainly slower than 28/32 though non racers may
>>>> well make that choice.
>>>> 
>>>> Not seen anyone claiming 40mm tyres should be ridden quite apart from
>>>> anything else relatively few road bikes will fit 40mm.
>>> 
>>> These days I think the main proponent of such wide tires is Jan Heine,
>>> publisher of Bicycle Quarterly. IIRC he rides something like 40mm very
>>> frequently even on smooth-ish pavement. But his articles seem to
>>> describe his typical routes as having lots of gravel.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Even with the caveat that he’s not really mainstream, he sells sub 40mm
>> tyres 30mm/33 or so?
>> 
>> Don’t recall him being quite so literal, my way or nothing, all advice and
>> indeed reviews seem to be it depends particularly at the 40mm end!
> 
> Right, he's not commanding we all ride 40mm tires. What salesman would 
> do that? But he spends a good amount of his text output praising ever 
> wider tires, even for normal pavement.
> 
> Looks like he sells one 28mm tire in 700c, and his road tires go up to 
> 55mm.
> 
> <https://www.renehersecycles.com/product-category/components/tires/700c/>
> 
> 
Indeed it’s been one of the takeaways about my gravel bike has been big
plump tyres roll nice on road as well, and give a much more planted ride,
ie less skittish.

Let alone is everyone setup for speed 1st and only? Mine certainly isn’t!

Roger Merriman