Questions - tyres and towing

[hebe]

You can put slicks on the Hardrock. Does make a huge difference.

Thank you! I shall look into that.

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."

lol! Luckily there aren't many pedestrians on the shared pavements I ride!