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Hmm - never been a fan of clipping my feet to the pedals or using special shoes, though my CAT boots seem to grip fairly well...

Slicks - err, hmm, not sure! My bike's bad enough in the wet for braking as it is!!! What about these:
Continental City Contact Tyre With Inner Tube - MTB
or these:
Continental Travel Contact With Presta Inner Tube - MTB

I already have "less knobbly" tyres on there but they've got >620 miles on them and the shop suggested I change them at the end of this month anyway, so I guess I can go for anything within reason.

Certainly I like the upright riding position - although at 6ft3 it's a PITA with headwinds - the prevailing wind is against me for the first third of the way home from work!

Oh hang on - what about these:
Vredestein S-Licks Tyre
I can even get them in girly blue to match the bike! How would these fit on my rims (I use 26x2.1 tyres at the mo (I think!) and the rims are about 3/5 the width of the tyres when inflated)

<blockquote data-quote="domfjbrown" data-source="post: 559772" data-attributes="member: 1073">Hmm - never been a fan of clipping my feet to the pedals or using special shoes, though my CAT boots seem to grip fairly well...Slicks - err, hmm, not sure!&nbsp; My bike's bad enough in the wet for braking as it is!!!&nbsp; What about these:<a href="http://www.wiggle.co.uk/?ProductID=5360008370" target="_blank">Continental City Contact Tyre With Inner Tube - MTB</a> or these:<a href="http://www.wiggle.co.uk/?ProductID=5300003705" target="_blank">Continental Travel Contact With Presta Inner Tube - MTB</a> I already have &quot;less knobbly&quot; tyres on there but they've got &gt;620 miles on them and the shop suggested I change them at the end of this month anyway, so I guess I can go for anything within reason.Certainly I like the upright riding position - although at 6ft3 it's a PITA with headwinds - the prevailing wind is against me for the first third of the way home from work! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Oh hang on - what about these:<a href="http://www.wiggle.co.uk/?ProductID=5360008370" target="_blank">Vredestein S-Licks Tyre</a> I can even get them in girly blue to match the bike!&nbsp; How would these fit on my rims (I use 26x2.1 tyres at the mo (I think!) and the rims are about 3/5 the width of the tyres when inflated)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="domfjbrown, post: 559772, member: 1073"] Hmm - never been a fan of clipping my feet to the pedals or using special shoes, though my CAT boots seem to grip fairly well... Slicks - err, hmm, not sure! My bike's bad enough in the wet for braking as it is!!! What about these: [URL=http://www.wiggle.co.uk/?ProductID=5360008370]Continental City Contact Tyre With Inner Tube - MTB[/URL] or these: [URL=http://www.wiggle.co.uk/?ProductID=5300003705]Continental Travel Contact With Presta Inner Tube - MTB[/URL] I already have "less knobbly" tyres on there but they've got >620 miles on them and the shop suggested I change them at the end of this month anyway, so I guess I can go for anything within reason. Certainly I like the upright riding position - although at 6ft3 it's a PITA with headwinds - the prevailing wind is against me for the first third of the way home from work! :( Oh hang on - what about these: [URL=http://www.wiggle.co.uk/?ProductID=5360008370]Vredestein S-Licks Tyre[/URL] I can even get them in girly blue to match the bike! How would these fit on my rims (I use 26x2.1 tyres at the mo (I think!) and the rims are about 3/5 the width of the tyres when inflated) [/QUOTE]

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