Originally Posted by
cyccommute
That’s only part of the story...and not the most important part. Wider tires have a large contact patch which means stability. Wider tires float over road irregularities while narrow tires either bounce off them (rocks) or knife into them (sand and soft spots).
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Well you’re certainly entitled to your opinion as much as anybody else, but I disagree.
In my experience, going bigger without lowering the pressure on the road provides marginal benefit.
The size of the contact patch has mostly to do with the pressure, not the size of the tire. The benefits you are describing for a larger tire will not be realized unless you lower the pressure.