Hi,

Well the Schwalble Road Cruiser arrived today, slapped it on the front
and went out on a 1.5 hour ride, it works well, rolls a lot better, is a
lot quieter at speed and is more comfortable at higher pressures.

Its more like a normal tyre than the rear Schwalbe Tracer. If the RC
has thin side walls then the Tracer has extremely thin side walls.

The Tracer you can "popout" the side walls so the beads are about
2" apart *, there is no sideways tension in the thin sheet side walls
at all, for the RC that is impossible, due to added rubber it seems.

Even though both are the same nominal size the Tracer is bigger
and more "baloony" than the RC, looking more like BA's I've seen
on other bikes, whilst the RC doesn't resemble BA's in any way.

I like the idea of a more normal tyre on the front (for grip)
and a very low rolling thin sidewall slick on the back, the
Tracer isn't quite a slick, but pretty near, and with that
raised slick centre section, should last a very long time.

rgds, sreten.

* No idea if this is to allow fitment to extremely wide 406
rims or a simple consequence of the tyres construction.