Road tyres off road?
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Road tyres off road?
Postby tobes88 » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:15 pm
Just wondering if others have done something similar? What to expect?
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Postby m@ » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:54 pm
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Postby Calvin27 » Wed Jul 09, 2014 3:56 pm
Bike is Sectuer so not exactly a cross bike but tougher than your average roadie.
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Postby edsa » Wed Jul 09, 2014 5:24 pm
Christian Meier tweeted his 28mm threads the team are going to use for the wet cobbles tonight. Im guessing if the 28's can handle wet muddy cobblestones they should be ok on gravel. =)
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Postby Strydz » Wed Jul 09, 2014 6:50 pm
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Postby barefoot » Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:22 am
That's on the same ~100psi 25mm road tyres I ride everywhere else.
As others have said, traction is the only real issue. Be very careful if you find yourself on damp clay.
Also be mindful that road shoes are really bad for walking in. Like, if you end up having to rock-hop across a creek crossing. Then try and clip in... uphill on wet clay... in too high a gear
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Postby Calvin27 » Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:31 am
If you've ridden a MTB before then it's should be all good assuming you're not using full race tyres. Like they say- a MTBr braces their hands at a pothole, a roadie swerves around it.Strydz wrote: it's how you postion yourself on the bike that is the key to riding offroad on road bike or similar types
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Postby m@ » Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:43 am
...and a CX'er bunnyhops itCalvin27 wrote:If you've ridden a MTB before then it's should be all good assuming you're not using full race tyres. Like they say- a MTBr braces their hands at a pothole, a roadie swerves around it.
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Postby edsa » Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:05 am
Well, it was won by a CX champion..kPrdfHTb wrote:Does this evening's TDF count as "off road"?
it looked a lot muddier, full of potholes and wetter on tv.
And in this thread's context (gravel roads) would probably be preferable to cobbles
Edit: pic i grabbed from the interwebz http://www.cyclingbetting.co.uk/images/ ... obbles.JPG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Postby barefoot » Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:28 am
One of the least enjoyable roads I've taken my bike on was a logging road out the back of Buninyong, which was hardened for truck traffic by dumping what looked like large railway ballast onto the sand/silt base. Roughly 100mm on a side, irregular shaped, randomly oriented.edsa wrote:Well, it was won by a CX champion..kPrdfHTb wrote:Does this evening's TDF count as "off road"?
it looked a lot muddier, full of potholes and wetter on tv.
And in this thread's context (gravel roads) would probably be preferable to cobbles
Edit: pic i grabbed from the interwebz http://www.cyclingbetting.co.uk/images/ ... obbles.JPG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The rocks were all embedded in the ground (after a few wet/dry cycles and a few log trucks they are essentially set in concrete), so they didn't move around under bike tyres like railway ballast does, but several kilometers of this jarring uneven sharp hard-edged nightmare surface... on my road tyres... I was already running late, so I had to push through at a reasonable pace. I reckon that was the beginning and end of my Roubaix career. Not a road I ever plan to revisit.
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Postby mitchy_ » Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:38 am
edsa wrote:Well, it was won by a CX champion..kPrdfHTb wrote:Does this evening's TDF count as "off road"?
it looked a lot muddier, full of potholes and wetter on tv.
And in this thread's context (gravel roads) would probably be preferable to cobbles
Edit: pic i grabbed from the interwebz
and i thought some of queenslands roads were bad after moving from western australia. that would suck.
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Postby silentbutdeadly » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:56 pm
It clearly did. But they still managed to average 47 km/h for the stage so they were steaming across this stuff. I suspect the capable units were adopting the 'corrugation technique' of "go fast/hang on/hope nothing goes wrong".mitchy_ wrote:that would suck.
28mm on some roadies is OK for virtually anything except soft over hard surfaces and even then handling techniques will win you some progress where others come a cropper. But if your roadie is more race than endurance in geometry then all bets are off. My steep fronted Scott CX bike didn't like 28mm tyres at all...or at least I didn't like them because they kept trying to kill me.
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Postby edsa » Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:52 pm
http://theradavist.com/2014/07/look-spe ... avel-bike/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; just released.
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Postby mitchy_ » Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:01 pm
so they're making bikes between road and cx now?edsa wrote:Apparently, (read it in some road biking magazine at lunch, can't remember the name), gravel racing is gaining momentum in the US, and there are some "gravel" specific road bikes being released..
http://theradavist.com/2014/07/look-spe ... avel-bike/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; just released.
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Postby gabrielle260 » Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:58 pm
That's old news - some of us have been riding gravel grinders for several years now.edsa wrote:Apparently, (read it in some road biking magazine at lunch, can't remember the name), gravel racing is gaining momentum in the US, and there are some "gravel" specific road bikes being released..
http://theradavist.com/2014/07/look-spe ... avel-bike/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; just released.
Check out gravelgrindernews.com or Guitar Ted's blog or melbournegravelgrinders blogspot.
A gravel grinder is not just another name for a CX bike - although some would argue that point. GT explains the difference at some length in his blog!
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