Horchata, also known as orxata, is a sweet drink popular in Latin America, Spain, and parts of Africa. The drink is rice-based in Latin America, but in Spain and Africa it is made with tiger nuts (chufa). A traditional recipe always calls for cinnamon and water, but beyond that, there are hundreds of variations.
The bigger wheels, however, have been skulking around the scene for decades. In 1999, Wilderness Trail Bikes got the ball rolling in earnest when they produced the first real 29er mountain bike tire. Soon riders began touting the benefits of the bigger wheel size. And those benefits are undeniable. For starters, the big wheels roll over obstacles with greater ease than standard 26-inch wheels.
We started with two sets of tires in the same size class, namely LT285/70R17 (33-inch equivalent), and mounted them on two sets of OE steel wheels. With tire pressure an mpg consideration, we used a formula that converts the truck's original 245/70R17 factory pressures to the increased volume of the bigger tires. This formula can be used by anyone doing a tire upgrade, and you can see it in the nearby sidebar.