I LOVE Compass tires. I ride Barlow Pass (38mm) on my Salsa Vaya and everything you say I can agree with. As far as outfitting your clunker with them? Well, I did just that. My 650b conversion trek 460 which lives outside chained to a pole wears the Barlow Pass 38mm. If anything they ride even better than their 700c counterparts. Both tires had been slashed with a knife one night. I was ******** pissed. However I mended them with some super glue and a Skittles wrapper, they ride good as new. I find my pressure sweetspot is 40 psi on my 700c and about 30 of my 650b.
I'm completing an 86 Pinarello Montello Build- I plan to squeeze their 26mm tire on there if its tubeless compatible. SLX and those tires could be butter baby!
Both of my sets are the extra lights fwiw.
Last edited by Wspsux; 08-03-16 at 09:13 AM.