Originally Posted by
scale
I am going to be looking at wider tires in the future for sure. Perhaps ill just stick with the 60mm. I am thinking Marathons in the future and i have been keeping my eye out. The Paselas are new so i have to use them up first / in the meantime. I am undecided on what width i will end up getting but the picture just above looks like a winner to me.
On that bike (in the photo in post number 8 above) I use 40mm wide Marathons (with Greenguard) on trips where I expect it to be mostly or completely paved. On trips where I expect more gravel like the rails to trails routes, I run 50mm wide Marathon Duremes on front and 50mm wide Marathon Extremes on the rear, the Duremes and Extremes are now discontinued.
The first photo below is the same bike, but with the 50mm wide Extreme on back, the bike is a bit dirty due to several days of rain on the GAP and C&O. (If the bike looks different than it did in the photo in post number 8 above, the largest chainring was different when this photo was taken.)
The second photo below is with the 40mm Marathons, you can see a small gap between the fenders and the tires because I leave the fenders adjusted for the 50mm tires all the time. That small gap does not look bad at all in my opinion.