Originally Posted by
CptjohnC
I guess the commuting upshot here is I'm impressed with you guys who commute on skinny tires all the time -- maybe I just need to HTFU but it seems like I'd have stuff shaking loose all the time if I rode on skinny tires. Anyone have a sense of whether I'd see a noticeable increase in comfort if I moved up to 27c? I want every reasonable advantage on my century, but I'd like to have all my teeth at the end.
Don't know about 27's. The bike I usually use for long distance rides has 32mm tires, and it's pretty cushy compared to my commuter road bike with 23's. I've done a couple long distance rides (century+) on my road bike and felt pretty rattled by the end. Road bike sure feels faster, but I've determined that I prefer the bigger tires for long distances, unless I'm deliberately going for speed over comfort. But that's just personal experience, and much could also depend on the bikes themselves.