Originally Posted by
Machka
And yes, go for the wider tires. You don't ever need to feel bad about replacing Michelins (bleck!) ... but in general you don't need to feel bad about replacing new tires because you're not throwing them out, you're just hanging them in your garage for future use.
This is true. It's a variant of the n+1 rule of bikes, except that the new equation is n+2, where n is the number of tires you own now.
