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Originally Posted by
cplager
If you have tread, I believe there is less rubber touching the ground. The reason car tires have treads is to push the water out of the way so they don't hydroplane, but
bikes don't hydroplane.
Sheldon
explains this pretty well. And you can't argue with a dead guy (it's not that he has to be right, but clearly arguing with him won't work
).
+1.
With the speeds that we travel on bicycles, hydroplaning isn't really a concern so tread patterns don't make much of a difference except in loose sand or such. Jeez, cplager, that comment about Sheldon is just ill.
Even though I have to laugh at that comment I would like to follow up with the thought that I'm sad he's gone, out of respect even if it's merely on a personal level. I was fortunate to have met him several times back in the 80s and have learned a great deal from him those few times we've spoken. He was a great individual and I will miss him. I'm so very glad that a part of his legacy lives on in the pages that Harris Cyclery, Harriet Fell and John Allen have been maintaining these many years after his passing.