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You just reminded me. It was your suggestion that led me to sticking a 35mm GP Urban on the back of the Mason for Transiberica. I think it actually came up 34mm on the Kinlin XR31 rim but seemed to do well. Flatted once hitting a rock at speed on a descent but did the same to the Pro 4 Endurance on the front in the early hours one morning and that one basically destroyed the tyre.
*I'd have definitely have won all my races if I wasn't a fat, lazy, drunk, old, whinging shitbag
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I used tubes and 35 mm Continental Grand Prix Urban in the last TCR, 28 mm gp4000 in -16 and -17. The 35 was very nice on some of the parcours and on some of the small roads in France, but narrower would have been fine. Might have been slower, as they're not that high end of a tyre, though they too use the Black Chili compound, but can't really tell if there's a difference or blame them*. That was 1,5 years ago though, there's more wide tubeless road tyres now, would be interested in some of those. After that I've only really ridden 47mm or wider tubeless tyres as there hasn't been any road racing.
*Actually I'd probably have won the whole race with faster tyres for sure.