It seemed a wonderful plan. While getting my broken spokes fixed (3 broke in my rear wheel in just one week time!) to get new tires at the same time. A bit smaller, because the ones on my MTB were just huge and chunky. Good for offroad, but just a lot of effort on the road. The classic zooming sound was kinda pretty, but besides that there was just a lot of rubber rubbing off on the road.

So smaller, proper road tires seemed the most logic way to go. The guy in the bike shop did warm me… it might look a bit funny. Small tires under a big bulky frame… I couldn’t mind. Put ‘em on! But then I went to pick the wheel and tires up on Saturday afternoon, put them under the bike again and… Oops… That does look funny! :-)

Well, funny… ridiculous is definitely a better word! I will make a picture tomorrow, so you can judge for yourself! It used to look something like this: Bike with big tires.

And now it looks like this:

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