Originally Posted by
W Cole
Have you never ridden in the rain before? On asphault, I can lift the rear tire off the ground on a mountain bike in the wet and I can can come pretty close on a cyclocross bike. On a road bike with slicks if I so much as breathe wrong on the front brake I lose the front end..
Something is wrong with your bike. That's not a slick tire issue.
A little tread between tire and road can sometimes help to concentrate pressure and force water from under the tire. But road bikes already have a very, very small contact patch. If you can't force water out from under a road bike tire you're going WAY too fast (like 100+ mph). The road pressure under that contact patch on your road bike is like 3x higher than it is under a car tire.