Originally Posted by
smd4
A lot of you seem to be reading-comprehension-impaired, but for me, the takeaway that a lot of the TdeF guys are running tires as narrow as 25c and as high as 160 psi is enlightening, and seems to give lie to "the pros are going to way wider tires at much lower pressures" type-statements that are frequently found here. Apparently, wider/softer = better/faster doesn't always seem to be the case.
I think your perspective here is rather limited, many of us are old enough to remember 25s being referred to as "wide tires" in the racing context, and now you're actually seeing 26s on the Tour which would have been unthinkable just a little bit ago.
All of which is a red herring to this thread anyway because there's no getting around the fact that putting Larry and his groceries on over-inflated 23s and 25s is bananas.