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Old 12-27-14 | 12:36 AM
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chip1
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Originally Posted by B. Carfree
Yep. I expect that within a year or two all the top end road bikes will have clearance for 28 mm tires, or even wider. Bikes with tight clearances that can't even take 25 mm comfortably will be oddities. (And then they'll be retro and then they'll rise again as hip bikes with history.)
But retro steel bikes are popular today because they're comfortable. Narrow tires are the exact opposite, so I'm not sure if future hipsters would buy into that.
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