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Today, we're going to be talking about plus size wheels and tires for mountain bikes.

And joining us, we have Bobby Brown from Maxis.

He's the marketing specialist for bike, and he's going to be joining us today.

Thanks for coming, Bobby. Thanks for having me. So let's jump right into it. What are the advantages

of plus size wheels and tires? Okay. So let's just throw a quick outline here. Just for what we're

talking about with plus tires, they're going to be a lot of the new breed of 275 by

2.8 or by 3.0 tires or some of the 29 by 3.0 tires and a big advantage is just that larger diameter

and something that we figured out with 29er tires just that larger wheel just rolls over trail

obstacles so much more efficiently than a

smaller wheel. What we're seeing right now is a lot of the 275 plus tires have a rollover,

rollover efficiency, a lot like the 29er tires, about the same outer circumference. So a lot of those

roots and rocks that they want to slow you down and get in your way,

the tire can just roll right on over in order to preserve some momentum.

The extra volume and the extra width of the tire also just gets a lot more knobs on the ground,

which gives the tire a lot more traction, which can, you know, in the hands of an advanced rider,

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