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04-24-09, 10:40 AM
can anyone with experience going up fire roads by santiago canyon (main divide road, maple springs, santiago truck trail, etal) let me know if theses roads are easily passable with a road bike outfitted with 700x30 cross tires?
i really want to work on my climbing and start taking advantage of the fact that there are long climbs with significant elevation change in my own backyard. plus i think climbing dirt roads on a heavier bike will make climbing the paved ones seem that much easier!
i have a high quality steel 80's era road bike... i checked the clearance on the fork, calipers, rear stays and it looks like i shouldn't have a problem fitting a 30mm tire... i think 32mm might be kind of tight at the rear stays. so my other questions is any recommendation on tires or tread patterns for riding double track dirt roads with nothing too gnarly or technical? or any other considerations i might have from using my road bike set up on these types of dirt roads. thanks all.
i really want to work on my climbing and start taking advantage of the fact that there are long climbs with significant elevation change in my own backyard. plus i think climbing dirt roads on a heavier bike will make climbing the paved ones seem that much easier!
i have a high quality steel 80's era road bike... i checked the clearance on the fork, calipers, rear stays and it looks like i shouldn't have a problem fitting a 30mm tire... i think 32mm might be kind of tight at the rear stays. so my other questions is any recommendation on tires or tread patterns for riding double track dirt roads with nothing too gnarly or technical? or any other considerations i might have from using my road bike set up on these types of dirt roads. thanks all.