Originally Posted by
gerryl
You'd be well served with fat tires. It's interesting that while racers are going as fat as they can fit on their bikes, tourers are still in the skinny is better mode.
Here is a link to an interesting article.
Fast fat tired
I don't know if it is so much tourers are looking for skinny, my question was more of a "at what point is big too big?". I see the virtues of fatter regularly talked about here. TBH, if I didn't have these or the Contis lying around, I'd probably buy another set of my 35mm Clement USH for this, not exactly lightweight tires themselves. Just more wondering at what point, if any, you really started hitting practical differences.
Also, interestingly enough, when I went to look for a rim size (none stamped that I could find), I notice these are also stamped both 40-622 and 700x38, so not even sure which they really are. I'll give them a go though, worst case I take them off after a few weeks.