Post by bendo on Feb 28, 2014 2:40:45 GMT
cover star: Victor
A gorgeous late summer day in Melbourne (finally the mercury has dropped below 40º C) and I've stopped to take a pic of my lovely new tyres before they get grimey.
If your Aerospace is still running 27" wheels (as it should) there is only one choice to my mind, and that is the Panaracer Pasela range. The tyre in the pic is definitely the top of that range, the folding Pasela with Tourguard (Kevlar) puncture protection.
Why? Because no other company makes a tyre as good, in so many widths, in gumwall. And no-one else makes a folding 27" tyre. They are the lightest, most supple, beaded tyre available in 27". End of story.
The one above is the 27 x 1 & 1/8 inch version (ISO 28-630). This, I reckon, is the optimal width for general use. I find the more common 27 x 1 & 1/4 tyre leaves only 1 or 2mm clearance between the Aerospace frame's chainstays. If you run full mudguards as I do I doubt the 1 & 1/4 tyre would fit at all.
Nevertheless Panaracer make their 27" Paselas in 1", 1 & 1/8" and 1 & 1/4" widths. They make them in gumwall and black, with or without Kevlar and both folding and wire-bead versions.
Panaracer also make the very best touring tyres in 650B (IS0 584), these and these. b
