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This is strange. Typical MTB has 295 - 300 mm support height. So lowering it by 10 -12 mm (difference between 1.95 and 1.5 tire) puts it between 280 -290 mm. On par with typical road bike and actually higher than typical trekking or hybrid bike (those tend to have 274 - 280 mm support height). I think, you are overreacting here.

Hah, you know what. BOOOO. A few weeks back I complained about my local bike shops and the crap service they provide. You gave me a snarky comment about me being the problem. Guess what the Giant shop guy sold me when I went in looking for some better rolling tires for my mountain bike as I was mostly riding it on the road. 50 to 70km trips. Just getting started with cycling. New guy to cycling with really no knowledge.... KENDA 1.5" tires. Good on you to point out I'm the problem. Glad we got that figured out.

For grins, i put Schwinn 26 x 2.0 file tread beach cruiser tires from Walmart on a jamis dual suspension bike and rode city paths and dry xc trails. They rolled fast, but the smooth edges made unnerving squealing sounds when cornering on dirt. It was a fun exercise, but I moved them to a commuter full squish cheap bike for gravel roads.

Let's be honest with each other, the only real reason people don't wear helmets is because their hair gets tangled. Or as an emergency doctor once told me: "better to look stupid than to be stupid...

I have a single speed mtn bike with 2.35 x 26 slicks. They are a little heavy but roll fast and work surprisingly well on wet pavement.

I have 26 x 1.5 recumbent tires on a road tandem. It works well enough. I like 700c better, but we are 200 and 180lb so the 26 tires take the shock without wrecking wheels and breaking spokes.

I purchased a set of 650b wheels, QRs and disc hubs. Fitted some 2 inch gravel tires. Looks great, rolls fast, no clearance issues. Bike is a Klein Attitude 2003, looks alot like the Trek 8500.

After a coupla wipeouts as a kid on my Schwinn, it became second nature to have the inside pedal high in turns.

What bothers me is that no one seems to know that speed, grip and comfort depend much more on casing and rubber compound than tread. Everyone thinks you need lots of tread to have grip and almost no one believes me when I say my MTB with 2.1" knobby tyres has much less grip on a wet road than my road bike with 27mm slicks. And my MTB rolls really fast too with those light casing XC tyres. These hybrid semi slicks are often so cheap and hard that they roll way slower and feel much less comfortable too.

Since 26" (ETRTO 559) 1.95-2.0 (~50mm) slick or semi-slick urban and trekking tires exist, no point getting as narrow as 1.5, since wider provides grip and air space to absorb bumps and such on the pavement, which makes them more comfortable and faster than 26" x 1.5, even 26" x 1.75 is way better than 1.5. I''ve converted old MTBs/ATBs for 1.75 to 2.15 wide city or trekking tires and they do great on all occasions from pavement to gravel (just lower the tire pressure some) and let's be honest, old 26" MTBs were generally not that great in off-roading to begin with.

holy ..... this is one of the coolest bikes I've ever seen. What a great job farmer. You inspired me to get some old mtb bikes on our local craigslist :-) my first two Giants now waiting for such a treatment as demonstrated in your vid which is a great help.

What a bunch of bs.

I have been yelling about the fall of Gravel bike culture tilting toward premium bike pricing category for years. But I think the new Walmart’s Ozark Z1 Gravel Bike ($250) is THE way to go at the moment. Big guys to provide a “reasonably” priced entry level quality bike to commoners.

i would have just slapped some black spraypaint on those bars tbh.

What kind of tires do you prefer for rides like this? Something a bit wider than a road race tire, maybe with a little puncture protection?

There used to be a great tire on the market, Tioga City Slickers, in a 26 X 1.95 size. I loved em, can't find them anymore.

Mountain bikers get away with it pretty easy because what they're riding over is technical stuff rock gardens dirt trails not necessarily big old thorns and stuff😂😂

Like that Shimano set❤

I'm just of the general belief that every bike should have 2inch/50mm slick tires. They're more comfortable and perform great on everything other than mountain biking. My gravel bike has 29x2.0 WTB Thickslicks that have performed shockingly well for over 1500 miles of off-road fun! P.S. I've run 38mm tires on a 29er that came stock with a 2.3in/58mm and rode it for 200 gravel miles on my first big event with no pedal strikes so I feel as though he's overstating the potential performance loss of a smaller tire on a 26in mtb.

Cookie's back! All is well.

Hard to teach experience 👍🏻

I had a GT saddleback My parents got me for Christmas when I was like 10 years old back then it was like 800 bucks I'm 39 that was when I was back then it was like 800 bucks I'm 39 years old now I had the bike for 5 months and it got stolen it was an amazing bike from what I remember GT is always been my favorite brand of bikes because I've rode a lot of their performer bikes doing BMX when gyros were real real popular

nice ! I always replace chain for rebuilds or every year on my bike

That bike needs shorter cranks. Tires are fine.

this video is pure BS. i got stuck in quicksand when i was being chased by a bear and the only way i was able to get out was a helmet strap turned into a lasso.

Yes I tried that once years ago. Never again the smallest I'll go is 26x2

I love bike mechanics!! I am 45 years old, never owned or driven a car in my life. But I am not bicycle mechanic and I need my mechanic to save my life all the time. Born and raised in Portland, living in San Francisco for ten yrs. Bike mechanics are just as important as teachers in Portland and SF and yet they aren't paid enough. I would be a miserable human being with put my bicycle mechanic.

You may not like the look or feel of the 26 x 1.5, but the 26 x 2.1 only raised the pedal clearance by a quarter of an inch. Really insignificant. No one should be pedaling through a tight turn, they should have the pedal high on the turning side and coast through until they resume an upright position. If you really want to make a hybrid out of a hardtail mountain bike, there are great 26 x 1.75 road tires available, I like the Continental Contact Plus. Then it will be on to crankset, stems, handlebars, and a saddle swap. Shortening up those cranks by 5 or even 10 mm would change the ground clearance more than the tires. I think the bike could be turned into a decent hybrid/commuter, probably for about half of the cost of a new entry level hybrid.

Older mountain bikes are the Swiss Army knives of bikes. You can knobby them up and tackle medium off-road trails. You can convert many to drop bars and have a “gravel bike”. You can slick them up and add hybrid handlebars and turn them into city bikes. Most have enough mounting points for at least rear racks and maybe fenders. And there are still so many options available for 26-inch wheels.

We take a drink at every “ope”, right?

You were at fault , not the tires, you failed to choose correct tire size for your set up. Should have used a 2.0 or 2.5.

My Salsa Warbird doesn’t have much pedal clearance. In a fast turn I put the pedal in up position.

I used to put specialized fatboy 1.5's on my 89 Stumpjumper when I worked at Budget, and ride home on the roads and Glacial Drumlin trail. I thought it was awesome. It wasn't awesome by any of today's standards. LOL.

I have 1.75 Kenda's on my old Specialized Stumpjumper M2, I have both cranks horizontal with the ground on curves so no pedal strikes, (Who turns corners with the pedal down)?

Continental Urban Contact 26 x 2.0 or 26 x 2.2. Not cheap but hits the spot for these bikes

It just needs a smaller crankset. I did the same on my schwinn. I had to get 160.

My bike looks dumb like that too. I've got way more pedal clearance than that, and if in doubt, corner with that pedal up. This is what was in my parts crypt, so I don't care. Old GT I drive with the rear suspension JB welded in place! You won't see pedal strike! Don't sweat it!

I feel like there is a Bike Farmer BINGO card coming.

Taco money! Thanks for swapping those tires! Way more better hey!

Faster is better! Stop caring about the looks!

I have a 2001 S Works FSR with 1.5s and 50 years experience as a pro mechanic, track and road racer and coach. This bike is one of my faves and flys. Low pedals are fine if you know how to ride.

It needed to be said!🙏hi-5!

I got 26x1.75" semi-slick tires for a mountain bike a two and a half years ago and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. The rolling resistance is so much better, I've never had a single puncture, no pedal strike, and the adherence is amazing. I didn't have the money to just "get a hybrid bike", nor did I have the money to pay a mechanic that would btch about my tire choice.

I'm going to be honest. There's a cycling option for ANYONE. I started Bike riding again when I was 46, after getting Bariatric surgery to come down from 515lbs. One of my goals post-surgery was to take up more activities, get out from behind my computer. So I went to a pro Bike Shop and got myself a 2023 XL Gravel TREK(I stand on reliability and "push-pedal, bike-go-forward" over speed) While I loved riding again....I have hairs that are the thickness and density of copper wire....EVERYWHERE. So, after two weeks of sheer torture, and discovering the magic of Chamois Butter, I finally realized....I didn't like the ride. I loved getting out, racing around, seeing my neighborhood, sure. I didn't like the chain-tats, the knee, back, shoulder, and wrist problems, the fact that I was facing DOWN a lot of times, focused on the 6-12 feet in front of my bike...But, I loved doing something, and I wanted to get a bike for my 70 year old mother...who had undiagnosed balance issues, and was falling off her Touring TREK. Enter my salvation: a tadpole recumbent trike. I got one for her, and one for me. I'm now bike riding in a recliner. No body aches(I actually feel BETTER getting out of my trike, because my back gets a MASSAGE rather than sitting on a jackhammer for 10+ miles) no balance issues. I'm able to see more of the world around me. I don't feel as endangered by cars(I got one that I call the "Humvee" of trikes: the Trident Terrain Fat E-Trike) because I'm no longer at risk of having to dart sideways to miss like a dip or pothole that might spill me forward. And mom's riding even more than i thought. On her Touring Trek, I could get her to ride one PERFECT Weather day....out of five. Anything else, and she'd balk or back out. This did nothing to help her balance issues. Now, she's asking ME to go riding with her, instead of me trying to persuade her to go. And even I'm now amblin and ramblin on my trike. Best of all, is the speed. Yeah, we both have E-Trikes. But because we're never going to win a racing competition, we don't care about how light or aero they are: we can get what's COMFORTABLE, over what's fast. So, we sit higher up, she's got assist handles on hers to help her get out...mine's just big and beefy. We've got bags and carriers for whatever we want, and if we need to up the speed, we just up the assist. We may be capped at 20mph, but if you don't ride, you're never going to get to a point where you BEAT 20mph to make it a noticeable difference. I write all of this, to say...don't stop looking. Maybe a bike isn't for you. If speed and trail-busting aren't your end all goals, if you're older and you don't want to come home to immediately jump in the tub, or if you want to just have fun and get out in the sun...a trike, or even a quad-trike conversion might be an option for you. It's expensive, but you can be a lot more comforted on a Trike, than you ever will with a bike.

I love that frame design and colors!

I'm in Australia and we get fined for not wearing a helmet so we don't have a choice....

Cool! Learn a couple new things. Thanks for sharing!

Right on, Righton!

Shorter cranks are needed

That’s a hybrid bike, not a mountain bike. The front fork is about the lightest weight one you can buy. It doesn’t have an oversized frame. Betcha it didn’t come with a dropper post either. As for pedal strike, that’s a rim size issue. It’s not the fault of the tire. Look at it another way… if you air down on the knobby tires for, you know, mountain trails, the rolling circumference will suck just as badly. A good solution to pedal strike is shorter crank arms. This is something regularly done on mountain bikes. I would wager that the crank arms are 170mm or 175mm… like most medium and large frame hybrid bikes (and all road bikes in those fame sizes too). As for the “look” of the tires… whatever. I’ve yet to meet anyone who can truly judge a tire by how it looks. Subtle differences in compound, carcass, sidewall stiffness, and tread pattern can add up to a lot more than the eyeball can see.