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(More customer reviews)I'm 39 and I've been a serious (read: "addicted") bike rider for 10 years. I stick mostly to roads, but my travel destinations often take me to the "Road of the Unknown" if you know what I mean, so I need a bike that's quite literally ready for anything. I ride a lightweight mountain bike, tricked out to do distance rides but still handle anything nature or the latest road construction crew can dish out.
Everyone who seriously rides distance - whether you're biking across Eastern Europe where the map says "road" but the reality in front of your eyes more often says "good luck," or zipping through city traffic to get home from work in one piece - knows that knobbies slow you down. Waaaay down. Likewise, slicks may give you speed but they leave you at the mercy of weather or road conditions turning against you.
That's where a hybrid tire comes in: they're designed to offer you the best of both worlds, speed and control, for real-world applications. And nothing I've used, hands down in my opinion, beats my Serfas Drifters.
Here's why: most hybrids I've seen or tried have knobs on the side, which unless I'm riding sideways or struggling through mud, have never seemed to be of any real practical use to me. Others are basically slicks with thin grooves cut into the surface of the rubber to disperse water, which in my neighborhood is useless. I live near the beach (I know, I know...), and that means rounding the corner into a surprise patch of dirt or the greatest bike enemy of all... sand. Any tire resembling a slick, hybrid or not, is going to dump you off your bike at that point... and all kidding aside you're more often than not looking at serious injury. (Wear your helmets, riders!)
Unlike any hybrid tire I've ever used in the past, the Serfas actually have deep patterns cut into the top surface, which has a flat rather than pointed profile. Thus the Drifters keep you very stable even at an angle, and have an uncanny knack of being able to handle anything I've every encountered with ease and grace. From long stretches of concrete roads wet or dry, to sand, construction zones, and even the occasional trail ride I'm doing fine - and let's face it, that means staying upright and not sliding on the pavement behind your skittering bike!
But they also perform stellar on the roads. Now they do act as little suction cups, the traction is that stable and that tight... so you'll be huffing and puffing to keep up with your friend with the slicks, although I have done it. But for daily distance riding they are fast enough, and the element of safety and total dependability make the trade-off more than worth it for me. And you'll be way, way ahead of your friend with the knobbies.
On a final note, I've had the same pair for 2 solid years of daily riding, (I sold my car 7 years ago to buy a new one and never bothered), through miles of roads, broken vodka bottles tossed on the road every Saturday morning and the occasional construction horro zone, and never even had a single flat. Really! Now THAT is a quality tire you can put you can depend on. As if all that isn't enough, switching out my knobbies for these took serious poundage off the weight of my bike, as well as great pound-age off my poor body by the end of the ride.
I simply would not own anything else - period. City biking is all too often a life-and-death environment, and the demands of it and touring distances are steep. You need a tire you can bet your life on, because that's exactly what you're doing. For me, the Serfas Drifters are it. Unless you stick specifically to trails or paved highways, then if you're serious about riding and safety go and buy these tires. You will definitely not be disappointed.
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