Originally Posted by
hybridbkrdr
I saw on Youtube there's a popular tourist that now uses 27.5x2.4" tires and some people in the mountain biking forum had some positive comments for 2.5" tires. So I'm sold on 2.4 except I think manufacturer's really should get on that bandwagon and make hybrids with 27.5x2.4" tires. (And V-brakes for me, too many manufacturers are abandoning this standard when QBP made a poll which showed about 20% voting for rim brakes. That's 1/5 of the possible customers out there.
If there was a demand -- any demand aside from a few isolated individuals -- for such a bicycle the major manufacturers would make it and sell it. But there isn't, so they won't.
The rigid, v-braked, aluminum-framed Giant ATX of a couple of years ago is a perfect example. If there was any real demand for that bike, and resulting sales, Giant would have kept it in production. There wasn't, so they didn't.