Originally Posted by
Wilfred Laurier
Quite the opposite! You are so certain that maximum tire hardness makes you a harder man or whatever, you should take the tires off altogether... stretch a 26" innertube over the rim sidewalls for traction and enjoy the super-fast fun of riding directly on the rim.
We used to tell newbies that the missing notch on the parachute was for training, and eventually, you could take another one out of the other side, then 3, then 4, until you barely needed one. You could tell they thought about it.