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09-17-20 | 08:33 PM

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ascherer

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Originally Posted by noglider

[MENTION=28632]Road Fan[/MENTION],

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That does sound annoying. I guess I'm lucky I haven't experimented that deeply.

My spouse's other bike, the one she rides more, is a Trek 7.3FX, a very nice flat bar bike. She has crappy tires on it, and when we go downhill, I coast ahead of her, and she pedals and still doesn't keep up with me. (I have fancy-ass tires.) I'd like to convince her to get fancy-ass tires, but she'll probably wait until these wear out. [MENTION=94771]ascherer[/MENTION] put Compass tires on his spouse's bike, and she loved them right away.

I didn’t wait. I was so impressed with mine I figured she deserved a set. However, mine are extra light casings and hers are standard. In the world of 27s I recently outfitted my sons bike with a set of slightly older wire bead 27x1.25 Paselas that felt fine the few times I tested the bike.

I’ve had 700x28 Paselas on one bike and recently put 700x35s on it in a different configuration using the folding model. I agree with noglider that they’re a solid tire and a good value, but they don’t perform as well as Compass/Rene Herse.

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