Originally Posted by
samkl
I was surprised by how slow and mushy it was.
What bike was it? I know some people that ride low-end soma 650b bikes with 40+mm tires and do it quite rapidly.
And I know some slower people that do pretty well on them too.
Not trying to talk into buying something you don't want, of course. My rando bikes are 700x32mm with different amounts of trail. The one I rode on PBP is very low trail and I had no problems with shimmy even when going too fast on the way back to Carhaix. The next one is going to have more trail, but not that much more.