• How are wide 650b tyres behaving when road climbing out of the saddle? I have heard some reports that there might be some unpleasant floaty feel at low pressures in such conditions.

  • How are wide 650b tyres behaving when road climbing out of the saddle?

    Fine, it's actually nice to feel a lots of grip as oppose to skinny tyres on loose surface.

  • On loose surface it's expected that wider and lower pressure will be better, I asked specifically about road cause my idea was to have 700c wheelset for offroad and 650b for mostly road with some occasional gravel.
    After some thinking I am now favouring 2 700c wheelsets - the terrain one with Resolutes and road one with 28c road tyres tubed that I could swap for winter with studded tyres for snow fun without the resealing hassle. I am wondering whether I should go for real 28c road tyre (like Hutchinson Fusion 5 Performance that I found for just 16 EUR) or Voyager Hyper that gets lots of nice reviews and seems quite quick for a more touring-oriented tyre.

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