Originally Posted by
BoraxKid
So you changed the bike AND tires (and had experience for your second run) and yet you're concluding it was ONLY the tires that caused you to lock up the wheels during the descent? That's not how robust testing works. Your story sounds like you might have simply under-estimated the braking power on the rental bike, and that is why you locked up the wheels. There is nothing to indicate that the tires are what caused the lockup.
You're right, it's not robust testing - considering that testing is my profession, I will readily admit that it's not large sample, single variable testing. Heck, the difference could have come from the fact that I was wearing full finger gloves in 2019 and therefore had a better sense of how much I was modulating the brakes. Or maybe I happened to cruise down a drier patch of road in 2019 when I went down the same hill.
However, my personal conclusion, after riding that bike that day, was that those tires were doing me no favors.