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@M_V
Really do not get all the Gatorskin hate.
I’ve never found them lacking in grip.
I run a 32mm one on the rear of my fixed road bike, paired with a 35mm Schwalbe G One something or other up front. I’ve hit the deck because the front wheel lost grip, not the rear.
Used to run the 23mm ones back in the day and again, never felt they lacked grip. Even better, I had a ready supply of them because people would get sucked in by the hate and change them out when they had loads of life left. I probably had a stock of about a dozen of them all ‘donated’* by customers at the l be as I worked in at one point.
*They’d say bin em, I’d take em home.