Questions - tyres and towing

[laura*]

Sorry, I used the UK spelling

Don't be sorry! It's quite fine for you to write that you "need some grey colour touchup paint 'cause you scratched your bike loading it in the boot of your car after you got a flat tyre when you went off the pavement to get around a pedestrian."

[Melalvai]

Don't be sorry! It's quite fine for you to write that you "need some grey colour touchup paint 'cause you scratched your bike loading it in the boot of your car after you got a flat tyre when you went off the pavement to get around a pedestrian."

Isn't that tarmac, not pavement?

But to answer the original question, yes, you can put hybrid tires on a mountain bike.

[hebe]

Our pavement is your sidewalk. Our road is your pavement. Confused yet?

I need to think hard about whether I'd rather tow dd to nursery or drive her there and do an off-road ride on my own. It's less than 2 miles round trip so I really ought to be towing her...

[hebe]

I might have a plan. I could move the Kenda Krossplus from the Marin to the HardRock - they are fine for light (not too muddy) offroad and they are faster on road. Then I can put some less chunky tyres onto the Marin.

[hebe]

I've moved the less nobbly tyres from the Marin to the HardRock, and put a set of CrossRoads onto the Marin. Looking forward to Monday when dd goes back to nursery and I can give both bikes a quick ride on their new tyres

[Cynedra]

My son's preschool is a two mile round trip and I occasionally tow him there and have thought about walking him there, but I'm actually afraid "Mr Independent" will try to do it himself so most of the time I drive him.

[hebe]

My son's preschool is a two mile round trip and I occasionally tow him there and have thought about walking him there, but I'm actually afraid "Mr Independent" will try to do it himself so most of the time I drive him.

It's a tough one isn't it? Small Girl could technically walk it, but she is so slow and easily distracted that we'd have to leave 20 minutes earlier. The route is part sidewalk (aka overflow parking for the business units and an unofficial over/undertaking lane ) and part narrow country road with quite a bit of traffic but no sidewalk - so I feel far safer on the bike despite the poor road surface. Two miles on a cold engine is so bad for my car and so fuel-inefficient that I'd really like to cycle it more often.