Oppocycle Situation [EDIT:] Billy Bonkers

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https://www.schwalbetires.com/bike_tires/off-road_tires/billy_bonkers

I ordered a pair of these guys. I don’t know if I’ll be receiving the gum wall version or the solid black. Gumwall, I hope... 26x2.1

So if you look at the first picture, yes, that’s a spoke pulling through the rim of my rear* bicycle wheel. That situation is repeated at about every other spoke. I think this is suboptimal.

* Because lardass...

My bicycle I only ride on the street, 10-15 miles, four times per week, plus or minus, at around 5 AM when I can pretty much own the street. I think of my bicycle as somewhat analogous to a ‘95 Impala 9C1 more than, say, a CTS-V or a Corvette.

I love riding my bicycle. I dress up like a reflective Christmas tree and light lots of lights and turn my Bluetooth speaker on and I look dorky as hell and it’s a beautiful thing.

Anyhow...

I have a set of 26-inch rims with knobbies that have gone literally about one mile when I instantaneously discovered that non-street riding was NOT my thing. So my friend, a bicycle guru, suggested I look at some two-inch street tires and run the 26-inch rims and this would be better suited to my urbanic riding anyhow. This sounds sensible to me. I guess I’ll pay some speed penalty with a shorter tire diameter and some more rolling resistance, but the 700c-rimmed tires only barely clear the top of the fork, so I’ll benefit there as well.

What you you think? What’s a good 26-inch road tire? Extra internet points for fashionable road tire that also rolls well.

Thank you in advance.