Originally Posted by
andrei_r
35 might be the official number this is why I said "squeeze". Personally I would be slightly put off by these numbers. I guess it depends on the kind of gravel and fire roads you ride. It's easy to put narrower tires on a bike with more clearance than the other way around. When you say the FX S4 is 2kg lighter is it comparing to the Toughroad or to the FX3? The S4 is one sexy bike but the Toughroad might give you more versatility should you want to ride some rougher stuff.
The FX S4 comes in at around 10.3kg
The FX 3 Disc comes in at around 12.04kg
The Toughroad comes in at around 11.5kg
I will only be riding light fire roads and small gravel and light dirt....nothing too extravagant at all. I am happy to keep tires at 32 or jump to 35. I guess I'm trying to make it a tad more versatile by giving it more knobbly tires which can handle gravel a bit better (not to mention tubeless). But I don't want to sacrifice a lot of speed on the road by doing this. I think all three tires I mentioned meet that criteria.