How well do the 20" Dahons perform on wet, hilly roads?
It's raining and I'm at work, but I'll have to leave in about an hour so I was wondering how the bike would handle on wet roads. I have a 2008 Mariner D7 and am mostly concerned about traction on hills. If it makes any difference, the tires are probably the ones that shipped with the bike, but I don't know for certain because I bought it from a bike shop instead of ordering it from Dahon. I've only put maybe 50 miles on the bike so far, so the tires are still pretty new. I don't want to have to take the bus if the bike will be slipping all over the road, but I'm still a bike noob and I'm probably giving the bike less credit than it deserves. Here's the elevation chart, but reverse it for my work-to-home commute (and the hill that has me worried is the one in the middle, naturally, which is on a busy stretch of road):