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James Shrubsall

Are 50mm tyres the future, and what does it mean for your gravel bike frame?

Gravel racer Pete Stetina.

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.

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