Slithering

[pasithea]

Mmm.

So yesterday we went looking for new pedals for my bike since the one broke and found the tires I'd been looking for and ended up getting those too, so I replaced my 8-year-old balding Kahunas with hardwalled road slicks. The ride feels so very different now. It's slithering and wet, like a black watersnake. That's the best way I can describe it. It feels very sexy, also a little bit scary. Slicks are one step closer to the Gitano I wrecked on. Not triggering any panics yet but it does make me feel a little timid again. Stupid phobias. Other than that though. Mmmm. Slithery wet sexy fast.

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[salia-chan.livejournal.com]

Hm. Just don't bike when it's wet outside, neh? ^^?

A while back, I wiped out on a ten speed type tired bike. Was taking a short cut along a dirth path. ten speed tires dont' grip worth two cents on anything but road. x.x

Anyhow, good news for you then. ^^ And I need to get my sister a new crank stem, as she's somehow bent hers. My own bike needs to either have the back rim retrued, or just replaced again. But I really don't want to take the flarking freewheel off, cause it's a pain and a half. ;.; And if I retrue it myself, it takes a bunch of hours...and I'm lazy like that. ^^;

Anyhow, bikes are fun. ^^

[centauress.livejournal.com]

They're fat and slick like motorcycle tires. They grip the road like no tomorrow. Like riding on a rail.

They'll only slide around here in mud, oil, open puddles.

Kinda wish I had a pair. More drooling over the other bike frames...

Hmm.

[salia-chan.livejournal.com]

I had a pair of tires like that, except they were _thin_. It's something I noticed, with the ten billion bikes I've used over the years. If I use a thin width tire, the knobby ones result in a bit more traction, but not all that much. The super slick ones give wonderfull traction and ride smoothness, but make you die when it gets wet outside. The grooved ones give a bit better in rain, so it's rideable, but not by much. Tenspeed type wheels also suck for brakeing most of the time. Get a little bit of mud/rain/anything on the rim and it's ten times as long to stop.

However...switch to thick tires and you're suddenly feeling like both of them are flat. You can feel the diference in drag, kinda interesting.

Also...on dirt and other not quite so solid surfaces, deflating your tires a little bit makes it more stable without much diference in peddleing force. but you can feel it reaaaly easily when you get back onto pavement. The current tires and innertube i have don't go up quite high enough for me; at the max inflation they still feel a bit sluggish. work just fine on any surfaces though, up to and including snow. ^^

Just me being random and saying stuffs that most people allready knows. <.