Originally Posted by
datlas
I think 25 is fine, but all the cool kids think wider is better. It's human nature to seek "improvement" even if it is marginal gains and/or marketing.
Originally Posted by
TMonk
im finally on tubeless on my road bike and doing ~65 PSI on 28s and it is quite nice. before I was on TPU tubes on 25s running about 80 PSI. also I am old enough to remember running 23s and even 21s on 120 PSI. would mob that up rural broken pavement and fire roads/back roads in college BITD. I was young and dumb.
mtb is a different story of course
"Why, when I were a lad, we'd ride 21s pumped up to 140 psi, narrow saddles with no relief channel, and bar tape with no shock absorbing qualities at all! We'd seek out roads with old cracked asphalt, concrete roads with joints every 10 feet, and newly chipsealed pavement! And did we complain? NO! Because we kept our jaws clenched so we wouldn't bite our tongues!!!"
I did try 32s, but it turned out the rims were too narrow and they only inflated to 29mm. Not much difference between that and 28s.