Maybe he's just faster than you anyway?
Seriously you should follow the MacB and now me route and go for comfort over speed, nice pair of 35mm Marathon anythings should see you right
Not possible he's just not designed that way...physically he could do it no problem but mentally...not a chance. Just using normal marathons has obviously threatened his mental equilibrium. Using a properly heavy, or slow(though none of them are actually that slow despite internet claims), tyre would see him mentally implode. Even if you kitted him out with a lighter, faster rolling, larger tyre he couldn't cope with the width or the lack of a harsh ride would scream slowness, rather than comfort, at him. It would start with a level of uncertainty and balloon, like the tyres, to full blown paranoia within a few miles. You'd then be reading comments like 'pedalling through treacle', though I've yet to find anyone that's actually tested this by pedalling through some treacle.
It may not seem much to you or I, a few seconds or minutes over our best times, but it would eat away at Martin
. What you like..
I'll be up North later in the year. I'll just follow the armwarmer trail!
