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<\/a>Continental TravelContact 26 x 1.75″ Tire<\/center><\/p>\nToday after work I picked up two Continental TravelContact<\/a> tires for my bike. While the tires that it came with are pretty decent, I wanted a smoother rolling tire for when riding on paths and other paved areas. While I’d previous purchased some rather all right Forte FastCity ST\/K mostly smooth tires<\/a>, I found that they are just too narrow for anything other than pavement.<\/p>\n After a bunch of reading online and a bit of conversation here<\/a>, I ended up going by REI and purchasing a membership<\/a>, two tires, and two tubes<\/a>. I wasn’t sure if the tubes already in my bike tires would fit, so I got these. I’ve got a spare 1.5″ – 2.0″ Forte tube, so that’ll continue to be my spare (these are 1.75″).<\/p>\n As you can see above (or in this top view<\/a>), the Continental TravelContact<\/a> has a really smooth center, with knobs on the edges. I took the bike out for a quick ride this evening after fitting the tires, and they definitely roll both more smoothly and easily than the knobby tires which were on there. I had no problem riding \/ hopping over some of the remaining piles of snow either, and they feel a good bit more solid \/ sure footed than the narrow FastCity ST\/K ones I’d tried before. So, all in all, these seem like pretty nice tires. Hopefully I’ll have some time to ride this weekend and get a good bit more use out of them.<\/p>\n
![Forte FastCity ST\/K mostly smooth tires<\/a>, I found that they are just too narrow for anything other than pavement.<\/p>\nAfter a bunch of reading online and a bit of conversation here<\/a>, I ended up going by REI and purchasing a membership<\/a>, two tires, and two tubes<\/a>. I wasn’t sure if the tubes already in my bike tires would fit, so I got these. I’ve got a spare 1.5″ – 2.0″ Forte tube, so that’ll continue to be my spare (these are 1.75″).<\/p>\nAs you can see above (or in this top view<\/a>), the Continental TravelContact<\/a> has a really smooth center, with knobs on the edges. I took the bike out for a quick ride this evening after fitting the tires, and they definitely roll both more smoothly and easily than the knobby tires which were on there. I had no problem riding \/ hopping over some of the remaining piles of snow either, and they feel a good bit more solid \/ sure footed than the narrow FastCity ST\/K ones I’d tried before. So, all in all, these seem like pretty nice tires. Hopefully I’ll have some time to ride this weekend and get a good bit more use out of them.<\/p>\nOh, I also swung by Lowes on the way home and picked up this cheap lock ($12)<\/a> for securing my bike when running up to the grocery store. It’s the sort of area where one could leave their car doors unlocked and most likely not have a problem, so I think this should be good enough for keeping someone from just riding away. I wouldn’t trust it for all-day use in a secluded area, but for a bike rack near the front door of a large grocery store, it should be fine.<\/p>\nUPDATE:<\/strong> I just remembered that I forgot to roll out the front tire and measure it’s circumference. Ergh. I’ll have to do this tomorrow. If I’m going to instrument something (in this case, the bike) I like it to be reasonably accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Continental TravelContact 26 x 1.75″ Tire Today after work I picked up two Continental TravelContact tires for my bike. While the tires that it came…<\/p>\nContinue readingContinental TravelContact<\/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":[23,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","category-moved-from-livejournal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24721,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/24721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0411-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![two tires, and two tubes<\/a>. I wasn’t sure if the tubes already in my bike tires would fit, so I got these. I’ve got a spare 1.5″ – 2.0″ Forte tube, so that’ll continue to be my spare (these are 1.75″).<\/p>\nAs you can see above (or in this top view<\/a>), the Continental TravelContact<\/a> has a really smooth center, with knobs on the edges. I took the bike out for a quick ride this evening after fitting the tires, and they definitely roll both more smoothly and easily than the knobby tires which were on there. I had no problem riding \/ hopping over some of the remaining piles of snow either, and they feel a good bit more solid \/ sure footed than the narrow FastCity ST\/K ones I’d tried before. So, all in all, these seem like pretty nice tires. Hopefully I’ll have some time to ride this weekend and get a good bit more use out of them.<\/p>\nOh, I also swung by Lowes on the way home and picked up this cheap lock ($12)<\/a> for securing my bike when running up to the grocery store. It’s the sort of area where one could leave their car doors unlocked and most likely not have a problem, so I think this should be good enough for keeping someone from just riding away. I wouldn’t trust it for all-day use in a secluded area, but for a bike rack near the front door of a large grocery store, it should be fine.<\/p>\nUPDATE:<\/strong> I just remembered that I forgot to roll out the front tire and measure it’s circumference. Ergh. I’ll have to do this tomorrow. If I’m going to instrument something (in this case, the bike) I like it to be reasonably accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Continental TravelContact 26 x 1.75″ Tire Today after work I picked up two Continental TravelContact tires for my bike. While the tires that it came…<\/p>\nContinue readingContinental TravelContact<\/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":[23,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","category-moved-from-livejournal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24721,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/24721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0915-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
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![this cheap lock ($12)<\/a> for securing my bike when running up to the grocery store. It’s the sort of area where one could leave their car doors unlocked and most likely not have a problem, so I think this should be good enough for keeping someone from just riding away. I wouldn’t trust it for all-day use in a secluded area, but for a bike rack near the front door of a large grocery store, it should be fine.<\/p>\nUPDATE:<\/strong> I just remembered that I forgot to roll out the front tire and measure it’s circumference. Ergh. I’ll have to do this tomorrow. If I’m going to instrument something (in this case, the bike) I like it to be reasonably accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Continental TravelContact 26 x 1.75″ Tire Today after work I picked up two Continental TravelContact tires for my bike. While the tires that it came…<\/p>\nContinue readingContinental TravelContact<\/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":[23,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","category-moved-from-livejournal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24721,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/24721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0918-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}