Your narrow gravel tyres are slowing you down in addition to making you uncomfortable, Cyclingnews lab test reveals

“Wider is faster!” – They’ve been screaming it from the rooftops for a while, and it’s not impossible to imagine marketing departments from around the bike industry having this printed on their office walls like some sort of mantra to be repeated. 

I mock it, but here at Cyclingnews, we believe there’s truth in it. But not ones to take the words of marketers at face value, we wanted proof, so we set out to get some.