jrickards

I know that there are a lot of questions about tires and you all know me here and that I shouldn't be asking the same question as all the others so I'll try to focus my question.

I bought my wife a 29er last summer but, 4 days later, in a fit of playfulness with the dog, their heads collided and she was home from work for the next 8 weeks recovering from a concussion (she's fine now but it took a lot more than that time to fully recover, close to 6 months, oh, and the dog wasn't affected at all). As a result, bike rides amounted to only a few in late September before the cold (from her perspective) set in.

She'd like to commute to work on the bike this summer and I'd like to swap out the knobby tires (don't know what model or brand but they're 700c X 54mm) for more paved-road friendly tires but at the same time, she'll want some cushy ones like what she has so they'll have to be relatively fat (50mm+). One I'm considering is the Schwalbe Big Apple.

Any other suggestions?