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Originally Posted by Sven7
Sounds like some standard maintenance. Is the bottom bracket cartridge or cup-and-cone? How good are you with a wrench?
Be careful with tires. What usually makes them roll slowly is a thick casing, not an off-road tread design. Go to a bike shop, and get a nice pliable tire. It will conform to the road better instead of resisting, resulting in reduced rolling resistance.
My mountain bike is on these right now. They are very nice, pliable tires that roll well on and off road.
And, definitely tune that derailleur before you go buying parts for it. 
Good to see a bike back on the road! I hope it all goes well for you. |
I'm happy enough to buy the tool and bottom bracket, will see how the current one lasts after another week or so.
The tyres fulfil 2 criteria at the moment- a cheap way to reace the worn out ones, and a way to get new tubes and more road biased tyres. Fair comment re sidewall stiffness, although i've dropped from 2.05 to 1.95 width so footprint should be smaller. I'll try them out and see how i go
I'm not going to purchase a rear cassette until i have the gears set up properpy to assess how bad it is.
Cheers for the info qnd encouragement-much appreciated!