Originally Posted by TandemGeek
Questions about bicycle tire selection and air pressure adjustments are like questions about macro economics; the answer will always be, "It Depends".
We do back to back centuries on lime stone in Wisconsin. It is no fun to push your Tandem for 20 or more miles. On occasion we had to financially persuade people to drive us back to our car.
This is why we are determined to have as few tire problems as possible. For two years we had "Specialized Hemisphere EX 26 x 1.95 Armadillo."
No flats, no trouble. Are they the fastest? Who cares. I do not want to walk.
For those of you who do not know: A lime stone path in a Wisconsin thunderstorm, is something to behold. You do not want tire problems in the middle of that.
We had situations were the outer tire walls were weakened and no inner tube held up.
(I know the trick with Dollar bills, it did not work)