tire suggestions

[madscot13]

Oh the C and O stands for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

http://www.nps.gov/choh/

http://bikewashington.org/canal/

I ride a steal bike too! Maybe I should start wearing bike gloves. I try to ride it with 32 tires, but maybe they are not a true 32 because every time I see a size 35 tire I am amazed at how much larger they are than mine.

I don't know how comfortable I would be riding on any paths like the image you posted. I think my wheels would get banged up pretty bad.

[anorange]

So I purchased the Schwalbe Durano tires. I got 700 x 25's. I really thought I was getting 700 x 23's, but failed to tell the guy at my lbs that was the size I was looking for. He thought I was looking for the 25's, and that's what he put on my bike. I didn't realize this until about 1/2 mile from the shop, riding on the new tires! I quick called them up and told them it was totally my fault, that I didn't explicitly say what size I wanted (in my excitement to get new tires I just forgot that important piece of information!). I asked if I could bring them back for the 23's and he said they didn't have them in 23's. He said I would notice a difference from my Panaracer T-Serves because these were lighter and faster. So I will give it a try and hopefully I will like them, because they were also more expensive that I was thinking. Where was my head in all of this??!!! From now on I mustn't lose myself in my excitement. I also fell in love with another bike while I was in there (don't let my Smoothie ES know). It's another Soma- a Speedster in a beautiful garnet red with a lugged steel frame. (Un) Fortunately it doesn't come in a small enough frame size to fit me. Phew!

[madscot13]

that will happen sometimes, but at least they are just tires. It is not like you bought a whole NEW bike because you got to excited.