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High end tyres are day and night apart from standard tyres, or fit latex inner.
My Elephant is 265mm with 42mm tyres too.
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Yes and for touring etc that is fine. I am just saying that I wont be selling my MTB just yet... ;-)
@Paradroid your Donohue is really nice. And 40mm trail is quite nimble i guess. Mine is only 49 with 26" wheels.
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latex inner
If I haven't completely misunderstood, people are saying that the benefits of a latex inner tube comes from having less energy loss when the tyre is deformed compared to a butyl inner. In that respect tubeless should be even better. Perhaps not the choice for proper touring, but I'm interested in trying it out for shorter trips.
@Hulsroy not trying to hijack your thread, btw :)
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paradroid
That's exactly what I was aiming at with the donohue I posted above. I haven't really tried any sort of technical off road stuff, but my initial impression was that the about 40mm of trail felt a bit quick on otherwise easy narrow singletrack. Haven't really though about that since, so doesn't seem to be much of an issue for my riding, more of that "allroad" than trail anyway.
I've thought that Kojaks been nice enough. Interested in trying out tubeless, might bridge the gap a bit compared to higher end tyres. I'm pretty sure I won't be splurging on the compass ones.