Klaas Bil wrote:
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I've extracted your references to the Big Apple and the trail
characteristics. Clearly the tyre does a great job uphill, an OK job
on the flat and it is terrible on the downhills. What would cause
that? Is jagur on the right track with his rim width remark? But
then
why would that affect the downhills more?
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The downhill part of the trail had the additional challenge of a rut
running all the way down the trail. There are many mountain bike tires
that have the same nasty characteristic of wanting to climb the walls of
a rut when you're trying to ride in the center of the rut. It's not a
problem unique to the Big Apple. Some tire designs like to try to climb
the sides of a rut and other tire designs are less inclined to do that.


The Gazz is happy to stay at the bottom of a rut, which is one
characteristic that makes the Gazz a well behaved tire for muni.


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