Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
I'm trying to imagine riding in a place without sand. As a Southern Californian, it seems impossible. Here, we have sand, sand with rocks in it, sand with clay in it, and most commonly, sand with sand in it.
we have gravel with giant rocks mostly buried in it, which you only notice when you hit them at speed. Which is why I got 20 flats the year before I switched to tubeless. I always thought the giant rocks were too big to move, but then they rebuilt some of the roads and they had a big pile of giant rocks next to the pile of gravel.