Make it last a little longer, Longer with Big Red!

[Catrin]

Cataboo - you rock! I get tense at the thought of having to perhaps change a flat and look at the wonderful work you do! Incredible, and thanks for sharing Red with us!

[Cataboo]

Cataboo - you rock! I get tense at the thought of having to perhaps change a flat and look at the wonderful work you do! Incredible, and thanks for sharing Red with us!

It's all fairly easy once you get over the fear of trying. although, flats take a little bit of practice. I think it took me like 45 mins the first time i tried to do one.

[Catrin]

It's all fairly easy once you get over the fear of trying. although, flats take a little bit of practice. I think it took me like 45 mins the first time i tried to do one.

It took me close to 2 hours - almost all of that was trying to get the last few inches of the tire back on the rim...that was on my Trek however. I have yet to practice on my LHT, and I need to do that.

[Cataboo]

Big red got new tires.

Reflective sweetskinz for visibility

[Tri Girl]

LOVE the tires- rrrrrowl!

[Cataboo]

LOVE the tires- rrrrrowl!

I now want to candy cane stripe the handlebar tape. But that might be approaching the kingdom of too far

[Owlie]

No way-- that would be awesome!

[Tri Girl]

I now want to candy cane stripe the handlebar tape. But that might be approaching the kingdom of too far

Too far? What in the world is that???
GO FOR IT!!!!!

[7rider]

Big red got new tires.

Reflective sweetskinz for visibility

Love the tires (and the bike...you do have a knack for creating cool Franken-bikes) and dream of blue reflective ones for my commuter beastie (but I wish they made them smaller than 70x37).

But 22tpi gives me pause. How do those tires ride? My experience with low tpi tires (Hutchinson's) has been that they are hard, harsh, and loud. Does the low psi rating soften them up? How do they roll?

[Cataboo]

Love the tires (and the bike...you do have a knack for creating cool Franken-bikes) and dream of blue reflective ones for my commuter beastie (but I wish they made them smaller than 70x37).

But 22tpi gives me pause. How do those tires ride? My experience with low tpi tires (Hutchinson's) has been that they are hard, harsh, and loud. Does the low psi rating soften them up? How do they roll?

It's covered in snow outside. I haven't ridden them

The 700x37 looked smaller than what I thought it would be, I don't think they looked like more than 700x32s, but I'll go measure.

I've got a 2nd set of wheels with 700x23's on it for when I want to use the bike to go fast or longer distances.

I'll post back when I've tried them out a bit. Big red isn't quite as fun looking as Scar or the surly was - while I love that red fade paint, accessorizing has been not as easy. If she sticks around long term (which hopefully she will), she'll get a paint job at some point.

Another friend sent me his old fork to try on her, aluminum cyclocross one vs. the surly steamroller I've got on her.

[oxysback]

Sweet bike! LOVE the tires.

[Catrin]

Sweet! She looked great before but those new tires turns her into a speed and fun machine even when at rest

[Cataboo]

Love the tires (and the bike...you do have a knack for creating cool Franken-bikes) and dream of blue reflective ones for my commuter beastie (but I wish they made them smaller than 70x37).

But 22tpi gives me pause. How do those tires ride? My experience with low tpi tires (Hutchinson's) has been that they are hard, harsh, and loud. Does the low psi rating soften them up? How do they roll?

Okay, I asked a friend who'd bought the blue 700x37's after I found the sweetskinz for scar. He commutes about 8 miles roundtrip in Idaho with about 250 feet of vertical and has been using them for a few months.

He said:
huh... I don't know that I'm much of a critic RE tires.
Mine roll fine. Not loud that I've noticed.
I run mine on max psi.

Before he was running - Bonty Jones stock tires, then a cheap Ritchey off-road cross (horrible on-road efficiency and handling), and a Conty touring tire on back. The ritchey tire was very square, thinner than the sweetskinz but rides much fatter.