Harvey wrote:
The conversation has veered from tread directionality, and is beginning
> to
> > lose contact with Vintage bikes...
> >
> > May I offer a closing observation or two?
> >
> > First, I don't remember seeing (many, if any) treadless tires Back
Then.
> I
> > wasn't in the Biz, and not often in the hotbeds of activity, but to
me a
> > vintage bike looks more normal with some tread. But, that's
aesthetics,
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the clement silks I rode back then might as well not have had any tread at all, so fine it was. The stickiness of the rubber was probably the most important variable. I rode clement silks in all weather, the worst problem was the same then, as now: wet roads slick with oil brought up by the water.
Charles Andrews
Los Angeles