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 Post subject: Rolling resistance
PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2015 4:42 pm 
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Can you have your cake and eat it too? Lots of us prefer wider tires and lower pressures for better traction and handling. I've always figured that advantage was worth anything I was giving up in rolling resistance. Well, Schwalbe is saying that it is different in the dirt than on the street. That the lower pressure has LESS rolling resistance. Seems counterintuitive to conventional wisdom, but there it is.

http://www.schwalbetires.com/wider_faster_page

And of course, since nothing is ever that simple, here's a good overall article about tire pressure:

http://betterride.net/blog/2011/andy-explains-mtb-tire-pressure/

Yes, this has been around a while, but I hadn't read it, and based on trailside book clubbing, I think the majority haven't either.

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 Post subject: Re: Rolling resistance
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2015 8:19 am 
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