Thread: Gravel tires
View Single Post
Old 12-25-21, 01:02 AM
  #9  
dddd
Ride, Wrench, Swap, Race
 
dddd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,193

Bikes: Cheltenham-Pedersen racer, Boulder F/S Paris-Roubaix, Varsity racer, '52 Christophe, '62 Continental, '92 Merckx, '75 Limongi, '76 Presto, '72 Gitane SC, '71 Schwinn SS, etc.

Mentioned: 132 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1565 Post(s)
Liked 1,295 Times in 865 Posts
Originally Posted by thook
Awful tires those K36 1-1/8".

On the front wheel they will ruin the steering feel. The tread pattern does not handle the loads correctly, so the transition between straight-line riding and cornering is abrupt.

Hard to believe that they went into production without road-testing, though there have been other tires with similar sorts of issues such as Panaracer's "TT Radial" tires.
dddd is offline