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@fred.frederick
I love the fact that everyone wants treaded tyres (inverted or knobblies) for the 2% of the time they spend on some hardpacked bridle path or whatever, regailing us with the benefits of tread or knobblies for the extra traction, yet the 98% of the time when they're on the road, no-one talks about the lack of grip with inverted treaded tyres (i.e tread deforms into itself rather than onto the road, less rubber contacting the road) or the danger of knobblies (they deform when cornering and you will wipe out at a much less severe angle than a slick or even inverted tread tyre, significantly less rubber touching the road too).