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Read what you said and think about it.
It’s not just the tyres but the fact it’s a mountain bike, where you don’t choose your line as precariously as you would on a very stiff gravel bike as well as using your entire body as a shock absorbent instead of the MTB where you let the suspension and bigger tyres take the hit.
The old wisdom that buzz/vibration = fast comes to play here too.
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They look a bargain at £140.
The type of tread is very similar on the 2.25 and the 3.0 versions, but the 3.0 has an extra row of knobbles. Yeah maybe the shape of the tyre is different which has an impact on its rolling resistance. But I suspect its more that sub consciously I'm expecting a drop bar bike to feel a lot faster than an mtb but in reality they're quite similar so my perception is that the mtb tyre is quicker? Does that make any sorta sense?!