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One of my oldest mountain bike buddies I hadn't seen in a while was on the ride today and he brought up the topic of all the old narrower tires we used ride all over the place back in the day.
We both laughed at how we rode 26" 1.9 tires all over the place with rigid bikes and later on crappy front suspension forks and we're as happy as can be. Heck, we rode some gnarly stuff on those.
And so we were thinking it was possible then, and I thought of course it's possible now too. I have saved some good old pizza cutters. One day I'll ride them, tubes and all, just for the fun of it.
2.4 in nearly every case is going to be better.
Back in the day we focused a lot on climbing and the 1.9 and 1.95 tires were pretty light.