Originally Posted by
Paul Barnard
The gravel pictured there is ideal for 700x35 gravel tires. Everyone has different gravel opportunities and different combinations of paved and gravel. What I have nearest to me is hardpack like that. 35's do great, save for the sections where I can't avoid what I call "chatter bumps" or "washboard." As it stands right now, where my 35's won't serve me well, it's time to switch to the MTB.
the gravel there is a dead end street that used to serve the station and the house near it. Would agree, 35-38c with a solid center tread would fly on that. The double track that went by there that we were riding would have been best with 38-45c. 2.2 was really only useful for about 7 of the total miles but those 7 miles would have been really rough with smaller. When we toured the Erie Canal later the same bikes were rocking 35c and 90% of the time even that wasn't needed.