Apologies for yet another wheel size related post, please post your ‘Oh no, not again, please make it stop’ posts below, if you feel the need. But…
I picked up one of the MTB magazines in a supermarket the other day and while not buying it, I read a review on a tyre which wasn’t overly favourable. At the end of the review they stated that ‘reports on these tyres in 650b and 29″ guise are more positive due to the extra grip offered by the larger contact patch’.
I was fairly gobsmacked at the utter twaddle I was reading, I’m no maths expert, but the size of the contact patch on a 650b can’t be large enough over a 26″ to offer any noticeable difference?