Originally Posted by
HTupolev
I guess I haven't done any precise testing on the speed, but I'm not making any assumptions when I say that they're "stiff." Here's me a few minutes ago holding a Pasela and a Gatorskin in my hand:
Not massively different in tire size, both wire bead. The Gatorskin feels a lot stiffer pushing on it with my fingers.
And it's not like I haven't ridden Gatorskins before.
That doesn't look like an actual Gatorskin tire in your hand in the first picture. Also, what the tire feels like in your hand, off the bike, means less than nothing to performance. That's a pretty obvious fallacy you've just fallen into. Like I said, when properly inflated, Gatorskins are quite supple and grippy--just as several others in this very thread and elsewhere around the world have reported.