Chico Velo '06 Century Series

[jobob]

As I recall, the gravel is rideable by road bikes. I should go read the description again, but I was just planning on throwing on some slightly wider tires.

Sounds like a reasonable solution to me. Unless you plan to make it into a race.

That's why I like to ride with wide-ish (~ 25 - 28 mm ) tires with Kevlar lining. I feel confident I can take on whatever the road throws at me.

Pokey is actually going to be sporting 32 mm Panaracer Pasella Tourguards for the really rough stuff and general purpose touring.

Yep, there's more rolling resistance with the wider kevlar-lined tires, but that doesn't matter all that much to me. I figure I'll get to my destination eventually, and perhaps even sooner than the guy with the 21 mm tires I keep passing while he's fixing flats