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@amey
This reminds me a conversation I had today with a rider on Cervelo S2 in Kent; on overtaking him on a hill he said 'you would fly with thin tyres' .. he is so wrong.
Some light reading:
https://janheine.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/what-is-planing/
https://janheine.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/the-biomechanics-of-planing/
(I have 25mm, narrow rims and latex tubes too)