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Now I was willing to accept this if you wanted something special. Mud tyres or spikes or combination road / gravel tyres or even doing 45° angle corner leans at 80kph down Alpe d'Huez or whatever but surely, SURELY, for just going A to B in an paved enviroment it wouldn't matter?

Yeah no turns out the premium shit does feel great and rolls better. I can never return.

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is why I ride 27" rims. So I can't have anything nice.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you mean 27,5''?
But those are a reasonably well stocked tire size... So really 27''?
If true, what kind of bikes use these?

[–] SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

It's an old standard, quite a bit larger than 27.5" ironically. Slightly larger than 700c even. I have an old bike that uses them, fortunately continental still makes gatorskins that fit them.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are there even more than 2 or 3 tires available for those?

[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

LoL, yes 27" tyres come in 2 or 3 different sizes: with ISO bead seat diameters 584mm, 609mm, 630mm.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago
[–] SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

27" and 27.5" are not the same thing. 27" always means 630mm with the exception of some obscure Danish bikes that I'm not aware of.

[–] Poutine@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Kenda stopped making 27-inch tires, so now your options are old stock of the (formerly) $5 tires, or $100 tires from the single brand that still makes them, and most stores don't have them.