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When I see these when I'm out biking, all I can think of is "Man, the rolling resistance on that bike must be immense." I live in the Midwest so we can get some snow but funny enough, I never see those bikes out in it. Also, it's flat as heck here and there's no trail biking to speak of.

It could make a sort of perverted sense in one way. Since the tyre will create so much drag, it will make the cycling harder. So it makes for tougher exercise, thus burning more calories and building bigger leg muscles :-)

It's like how everyone was building fixies and single speeds for a while. And then it as 29ers (and 29er single speeds of course).

They make no sense for 99% of the people I see biking with them too.