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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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When I was running 30c, I called mine a “dirt dancer” rather than a “gravel grinder,” hoping to evoke a sense of the grace and elegance required to successfully hustle a relatively narrow tire at speed down a rough, dirt road. 😄
Personally, I think 32s are more dancers than grinders.
Maybe we can call bikes with 32, 35, and 38c “rubble rounders,” and leave the grinding to the +40c fatties…