
I'll admit to feeling a little hard done by. All those years crashing around the lanes of south London and Surrey on 23mm tyres pumped up harder than mahogany, when all that time I could have been using 28s, even 32s and more, and enjoying both comfort and (legs willing) speed.
As we have gradually got to grips with the rather counter-intuitive idea that wider tyres don't tend to slow you down, tyres have got bigger, and bigger, and bigger.