>>1096875Most road bikes are made to take short hood brake calipers and cannot take 28 mm tires and even if they could 28 mm is not that thick. On my cyclocross I run 38mm Compass Direct Barlow Pass ultra lights* and now that I tried that I would go to 42 mm as I notice no disadvantage on the road with 38mm but only advantages.
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https://www.compasscycle.com/shop/components/tires/700c/compass-700cx38-barlow-pass/>>1096890>>1096903>>1096906>>1096908Getting wider supple tires is the best upgrade you can make to your bike. The thing is most people who try wide tires try cheap, harsh, hard, low quality tires meant to offer the most puncture protection but my 38mm Compass Barlow Pass Ultra Lights cost $78 each tire, total $180 with NJ taxes. Read this article:
Article:
https://janheine.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/bicycle-quarterly-performance-of-tires/>Wider tires roll faster. A Michelin Pro2 Race in 25 mm width was faster than the same tire’s 23 mm version, which in turn was faster than the 20 mm version.>...>On steel drums, wider tires were slower because they had to run at relatively low pressures. Once we had shown that the high pressures served little benefit, it became clear that on real roads, wider tires are faster, period.Most the idiot Fred infuenced bike industry and its racer wannabe target demographic believe erroneously that thin tires at high psi were faster because of feedback from idiotic steel drum tests... The nonsense that goes on in cycling is unbelievable.
And listen to this Podcast to find out why wide supple tires are not only more comfortable, they make you go faster, etc.:
http://cyclingtips.com/2016/08/cyclingtips-podcast-episode-9-rethinking-road-bike-tire-sizes-and-pressures/ 