Even today, brands like Maxxis, specialized, WTB, and vittoria offer a 2.6 … which feels like the course correction that happened after Plus lost it’s marketing appeal. Perhaps more interestingly is how differently brands approach these wider treads. For the most part Maxxis 2.6 tires are shunned by hard hitting riders because they are a bit less stiff compared to their 2.4 and 2.5 counterparts. WTB 2.6s on the other hand are just bigger and heavier.
The normalizing of 30-35mm rims has a big part to play here too in the story of this ‘course correction’…
March 15, 2022, 6:54 a.m. - Vincent Edwards
Even today, brands like Maxxis, specialized, WTB, and vittoria offer a 2.6 … which feels like the course correction that happened after Plus lost it’s marketing appeal. Perhaps more interestingly is how differently brands approach these wider treads. For the most part Maxxis 2.6 tires are shunned by hard hitting riders because they are a bit less stiff compared to their 2.4 and 2.5 counterparts. WTB 2.6s on the other hand are just bigger and heavier. The normalizing of 30-35mm rims has a big part to play here too in the story of this ‘course correction’…