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[Jeremy]

Not what I had in mind, but I'm curious as to whether these tyres live up to the hype. I can see that they will give a more comfortable ride, but would have thought that their rolling resistance would have been much higher than the adverts seem to suggest.

Jeremy

 

[flecc]

Schwalbe make a big issue of their contention that wide tyres have no greater rolling resistance on the grounds of the different footprint pattern. I'll see if I can find the link to that information.

Here it is, pages 15 and 16 in this PDF:

Technical information
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