After last week's blowout I inspected the street tires on my commuter/utility bike, and decided new tires were in order 20 years ago I believe it came with 26x1.95 knobbies. Then I tried 26x2.25 hybrid knobbies (horrible cornering), before a succession of 1x1.5 and 1x1.65 street tires althoughwith mildly aggressive tread. Of course for the last two winter's this bike gets the 1.65 Suomi Nokian studded snow and ice ties. This morning I mounted a new pair of 26x1.85 slicks. What appealed to me were the rounded shoulders and supple sidewalls. Since my number one commuter recently got 700x32 Continental touring 2 tires which are really more like 28s and very firm (although sticky), I thought I would put something a little more cushy on this bike

they really fill out the fenders and even at their 65 PSI Max, they seemed comfortable on the up and down the block run through. Sometime in the next week I will ride it to work and see how that goes. Of course I have mr. Tuffy Tire liners to protect them from Colorado's ubiquitous goat head thorns.