After seeing a number of the posts it seems I'm not the only one who's returning to cycling after a few years, in my case approx 25 years.
Last year I bought myself a second hand Trek 3500 MTB and have been out and about quite a bit purely to help to get a bit fitter.
I'd like a little bit of advice from anyone that can provide it. In April there are a few of us tackling the Cumbrian Coast To Coast and currently I have those knobbly tyres (26 x 2.0) and someone said that if I switched to slicks I'd find it much easier going on the roads. I've got to be honest that in the last few weeks I've done a couple of 30 milers and it's been bleedin' hard work but if I was switching to slicks would I just go for the same diameter of tyre for a MTB or is the width as important?
This may seem like a thicko question but in my days of cycling you just walked into the shop picked a tyre of the right diameter and walked out. Nowadays you're faced with different widths, treads and vary varying prices. Any advice would be useful.
Thanks
Last year I bought myself a second hand Trek 3500 MTB and have been out and about quite a bit purely to help to get a bit fitter.
I'd like a little bit of advice from anyone that can provide it. In April there are a few of us tackling the Cumbrian Coast To Coast and currently I have those knobbly tyres (26 x 2.0) and someone said that if I switched to slicks I'd find it much easier going on the roads. I've got to be honest that in the last few weeks I've done a couple of 30 milers and it's been bleedin' hard work but if I was switching to slicks would I just go for the same diameter of tyre for a MTB or is the width as important?
This may seem like a thicko question but in my days of cycling you just walked into the shop picked a tyre of the right diameter and walked out. Nowadays you're faced with different widths, treads and vary varying prices. Any advice would be useful.
Thanks