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Plan to do it in a day this week.. to just ride and see how far I get.

Shall I ..

Stick with knobblies or go slicks as it’s so dry ?


 
Posted : 01/07/2018 2:22 pm
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Knobblies. It’s looser than a sack of gravel in some places.


 
Posted : 01/07/2018 2:27 pm
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Big volume tyres with a light tread - its hardpack chalk or loose, flinty stuff. My fastest traverse was riding a SS CX with 40mm tubeless tyres in the days before 'gravel' bikes existed.


 
Posted : 01/07/2018 3:38 pm
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Some nobbles and decent volume. This year it was murder on the hard pack dry descents, it felt like an earthquake in terms of the vibrations. On a rigid though.   I think I had too much psi.

Good luck.


 
Posted : 01/07/2018 9:50 pm