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From: leimkuhl@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Tire Pressure, etc.....
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 13:11:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 13:11:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU!leimkuhl    Sep 24 12:11:00 1985





Some of us like to do fast centuries.  After all, we're not talking about
some six-day tour--what's 100 miles but a long training ride?

There's a real myth around right now that these smoothies are
less durable or more slippery than there treaded cousins.  All
tests seem to say the opposite.  My feeling is that they bite
the road on corners appreciably better than my turbo/s's and
not much worse than my cotton tubulars.  As for durability, well
I had a couple of flats that day, but I suspect it was my use of
metal tools that caused the second and my pinching the tube that
caused the first.  My brother has no problems with his Avocet 30s,
and another guy I know says he didn't have a flat in six months
of riding smoothies.  

Face it, we've probably all been hoodwinked
by Specialized's tire tread ads, and the only reason they're
not recommending turbo/rs for all surfaces is because they would
be admitting that they've been selling us extra rubber for years.

-Ben Leimkuhler


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