I can now say I have been riding these tires in 26x2.35 and I like them a lot. Very smooth on pavement. Only about 100 miles on them. But they suck on loose dirt. Wrong tool for the job. Hit the brakes and the front tire washes out if the dirt is more than two inches or so deep. rules of the road where I was riding said I could take the whole road but had to move over to the shoulder for the tour buses that ran every 15 minutes, and the shoulder was super nasty if I wasn't paying very close attention. These are pavement tires that can handle rain (first ride was in the rain) and hardpack but not loose dirt.