Dodging the rain

[Rusty Nails]

I’m sorry but I disagree. Since binning the Gatorskin and putting on Continental grand prix’s I haven’t the issue with the back wheel skidding.

I have Gatorskins on one bike and and GPs on the other two and I honestly can't tell the difference in sliding, grip, puncture resistance or general feel.

Probably I'm just not good enough a cyclist to notice, but ignorance is bliss.

 

[blackrat]

There are far, far too many stories about the dreadful grip on Gators for it to be anything but true.
Often you only realise how bad they are when you move to a decent tyre.

Actually, I am quite happy when riders make spurious/inaccurate/inexperienced and uniformed comments about Gatorskins. The less people buy them maybe the prices will remain stable, better for me to buy them then.

 

[Webbo2]

Actually, I am quite happy when riders make spurious/inaccurate/inexperienced and uniformed comments about Gatorskins. The less people buy them maybe the prices will remain stable, better for me to buy them then.

Inexperienced 🤔 I guess 45 years of serious cycling might get you to enthusiastic beginner.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[Rusty Nails]

Inexperienced 🤔 I guess 45 years of serious cycling might get you to enthusiastic beginner.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Were all of those 45 years serious, or did you enjoy yourself once in a while?

 

[Webbo2]

Were all of those 45 years serious, or did you enjoy yourself once in a while?

Why would I ride a bike to enjoy my self. I would go down the pub to do that Shirley.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Why would I ride a bike to enjoy my self. I would go down the pub to do that Shirley.

I can multitask. I do both.

 

[Molteni Man]

Much of the negative comments about Gatorskins slipping is most likely apocryphal in that the same can be said about any tyres and the cause is most likely rider position and road surfaces. I find myself leaning too much on the handlebars such that I am dictating to the bike how it should handle the road. Less pressure on the bars will allow the front wheel to take its proper position. Think of how we used to ride with no hands as kids. We steered the bike by leaning allowing the wheel to take its position on the curves.

Continue riding with them as everyone has a choice, but as has been stated by several on here there are definitely issues with them and that is just a small sample! I had been riding for years a when I came off with them fitted and know when a slide should not happen! Horrible hard shiny surface to them! Each to their own, but anything to reduce the risk for me!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Much of the negative comments about Gatorskins slipping is most likely apocryphal

And yet, you yourself say you have gone down on wet corners many many times. Either it‘s the tyres, the rider or a combination of both. Unless you are going down when you are all out, leaning at crazy angles and speeds during races, it should be rarer than a blue moon.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I can multitask. I do both.

That isn't multi-tasking
it is riding to the pub - then going to the pub after
so it is analysing a project and dividing it up into separate task and executing them sequentially

Multi tasking is riding a bike along a canal bank and wondering how long a duck can stay under water - at the same time

 

[pjd57]

Weather in Glasgow hasn't been too bad.
Virtually no frost and not as wet as most other areas.
I've been out on mainly short runs most days and only had one real soaking.
Just damp a few times.
Today was good. No rain , not a lot of wind and the sun was shining

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

SO - big job done

Air fryer cleaned - not just the pans
but the top area as well

a right pain - to get anywhere I needed a cheap toothbrush which I heated up with a flame very gently and bent at right angles

and also one of the sponge topped scrubby things - manipulated into corners and under things using the toothbrush

Thing is
if the element was removable, then the whole thing would be easy to clean
but I tried that on the previous one we had and afterwards it broke - so I returned it
so I'm not trying that again
but it was not what I expected - I expected to undo one screw and then be able to slide it out
which I did but that revealed 2 very thin wires snaking into the main body that is not accessible

the fan underneath can easily be undone but is so close to the element that doing it does not help

so it is just a right pain and there are always bits you cannot get to!!

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

A change is as good as a rest...

Time to dodge the ice and frost over the weekend instead!

 

[Brandane]

Actually, I am quite happy when riders make spurious/inaccurate/inexperienced and uniformed comments about Gatorskins. The less people buy them maybe the prices will remain stable, better for me to buy them then.

Errrm; this is what you had to say about your tyres in post #38:

I have come off my bike too many times riding on wet surfaces on bends in the road due to my tyres slipping, so never again.

When asked what brand of tyres you were using, YOU said Gatorskins! So who exactly is making "spurious, inaccurate, inexperienced, and uninformed" comments about Gatorskins?

Confused of Ayrshire.

 

[katiewlx]

Analyzing my 'wet slippage'; the surfaces I have issues with are freshly tarmacked.

and there is real science or logic to that too, as the freshly tarmac'd stuff, has more oil and residues that havent quite washed out yet and the surface hasnt "worn in" so to speak, so yes always be careful when its new tarmac