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Originally Posted by
bear_a_bug
LBS said that it was the fad at the time to make much narrower tires, label them as wider, then claim to have the lightest "25mm" tires in the market.
Doesn't surprise me.
Someone gave me a pair of Specialized tires labeled 27x1". Unmounted they look more like 23s or even smaller, certainly not 25s.
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