So today I took the Santa Cruz Tallboy LTc to Sherman with the urban wheels with city tires ... rode around 32 miles in the central area ... boy, this town is a dump! Tar-paper shacks and rundown houses with little or no paint. There is a "historic district" with a few old mansions ... right next to tar-paper shacks. Depressing.
I'm sure there are some nicer homes in the outlying areas, next to bicycle unfriendly roads. Of course I took the fat tire bike because the city streets are not what one would call smooth and well-maintained. Also, for some reason, there is a 3-hour parking limit everywhere around the city square. Weird. The only other bikes I saw riding around were on the homeless end of the spectrum.

I'm doing more fat tire tours of small towns ... Denison and Denton are on the list.