{"id":9285,"date":"2008-03-17T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/bike-tires\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:49","slug":"bike-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/bike-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Tires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, not long after getting my bike I picked up a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.performancebike.com\/shop\/profile.cfm?SKU=2314&#038;subcategory_ID=5425\">Forte FastCity ST\/K<\/a> tires. These are relatively narrow, somewhat smooth tires designed to make a mountain bike work better on roads. This they do very well, but they are awful on other surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>The knobby tires which came with my bike seem to do well on trails, but whenever I&#8217;m riding on pavement they are a bit rough\/rumbly, and just a bit harder than the smooth tires to pedal \/ go fast with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been finding that what I really want, to match how I use the bike, is something which is smooth rolling on pavement, but will still be okay when I have to deal with spots of mud, puddles, and riding around on grass \/ dirt paths, two-tracks up north, stuff like that. Not true mountain bike uses, but more go-anywhere tires.<\/p>\n<p>Looking around online I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.performancebike.com\/shop\/profile.cfm?SKU=14811&#038;subcategory_ID=5425\">these, Continental Traffic<\/a> tires, which seem to have a nicely smooth but still grooved center, and bigger knobs around the edge. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbr.com\/reviews\/Tire\/product_87418.shtml\">these reviews<\/a> they look like they&#8217;d be pretty all right.<\/p>\n<p>Do any of you have an opinion on these, or possibly recommendations for similar tires?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, not long after getting my bike I picked up a pair of Forte FastCity ST\/K tires. These are relatively narrow, somewhat smooth tires designed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/bike-tires\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bike Tires<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-moved-from-livejournal","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12344,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}