Originally Posted by
Leebo
29 x 2.3 or 65 mm worked well for my last tour. More kind of bikepacking. Some pavement, lots of dirt paths and roads, crazy NH class 6 roads( think washed out jeep trails) and some sweet single track, mostly tame. A mostly slick tire with some sipping and inverse tread.
Yeah that's a really fat tire. Which bike did you use? If going drops, you'd almost have to use a salsa fargo for touring or the velo orange piolet to run a tire this fat. Lots of choices if running flat bars as this is running into mountain bike land in terms of tire size.