Any benefit using 20mm width tire

[novetan]

I’m pretty light weight. My bike+me = 67kg. Will I benefit from using a 20mm width clincher tire instead of 23mm?

I ride mostly reasonably good tarmac road and social racing.

 

[ushills]

Highly unlikely!

Less comfortable and more likely to get pinch flats.

 

[Rob3rt]

WTF is social racing?

 

[boydj]

Current trends are for wider tyres - more comfortable, no slower and better able to handle rougher surfaces. You should be thinking 25s if your frame can take them. Pros in the recent cobbled classics were riding 28s and 30s.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012...esistance-than-their-narrower-brethren_209268

 

[gaz]

Current trends are for wider tyres - more comfortable, no slower and better able to handle rougher surfaces. You should be thinking 25s if your frame can take them. Pros in the recent cobbled classics were riding 28s and 30s.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012...esistance-than-their-narrower-brethren_209268

Importantly the tyres must be of the same pressure for them to be better.

 

[4F]

WTF is social racing?

Sounds like commuter racing to me

 

[Ningishzidda]

My bike and I are 90 kg.
I swapped out a pair of Conti Force/Attack ( at 120 psi ) on my SWorks to Conti GP Supersonic 20mm at 145 psi.

The difference is noticeable.

Pinch flats ( or 'Snakebite' punctures ) don't exist in my world.
TBH, there is less rubber on the road to pick up sharps.

 

[ushills]

My bike and I are 90 kg.
I swapped out a pair of Conti Force/Attack ( at 120 psi ) on my SWorks to Conti GP Supersonic 20mm at 145 psi.

The difference is noticeable.

Pinch flats ( or 'Snakebite' punctures ) don't exist in my world.
TBH, there is less rubber on the road to pick up sharps.

At 145psi and 90kg I would expect a difference.

I'm suprised you don't feel every piece of gravel on the road!

 

[HLaB]

It might just be coincidence but when I changed from 23mm tyres to 22mm, I got a number of pinch flats (I hadn't really suffered from them before or since I changed back, touch wood).

 

[Hip Priest]

WTF is social racing?

A race with a cafe stop halfway round.

 

[beastie]

WTF is social racing?

I prefer anti social racing - that is racing at night, with no lights, black clothes, RLJ and the Airzound let of at frequent intervals.

 

[boydj]

Importantly the tyres must be of the same pressure for them to be better.

My reading of the write-ups would suggest that you can benefit from running slightly lower pressure on the wider tyre with no additional rolling resistance.

Check out this article http://road.cc/content/news/80505-p...-wheels-chainrings-chainguides-and-directions

 

[Ningishzidda]

At 145psi and 90kg I would expect a difference.

I'm suprised you don't feel every piece of gravel on the road!

I don't ride slow enough for the gravel to make itself felt.

 

[vickster]

WTF is social racing?

Strava'ing?