Finding the right size tyre for your bike can be more tricky than it at first appears. That’s a result of different ways to define a wheel and tyre’s size and the need for the tyre to fit in your bike ...

The choice is bewildering and it’s led to rumours of an industry conspiracy that ‘they’re just trying to sell us more bikes!’ But is this true? And does wheel size even matter? Read on to find out.

It used to be so simple. Mountain bikes had 26in wheels and that was that. It had been that way since 26in wheeled beach cruiser bikes were first raced down Californian mountains and, apart from ...

The choice is bewildering and it’s led to rumours of an industry conspiracy that ‘they’re just trying to sell us more bikes!’ But is this true? And does wheel size even matter? Read on to find out.

The debate around the benefits and limitations of mountain bike wheel sizes has been raging for several years, but what are the real-world differences between 26in, 27.5in and 29in wheels? That’s a ...

For almost all of the last two decades, there was no gray area when it came to wheel diameter sizes for mountain bikes: 26-inch wheels reigned. Over the last several years, however, two other sizes ...