When you posed the question, "Why not?", and swan answered with, "Performance.", your response was "LMAO".
The implication in your statement is that performance remains unaffected or is even improved by widening the tires when this is simply not true. My posting of the pictures above goes directly to that point. If wider tires increased performance, more people would be doing it.
Perhaps you should clarify your statement or respond in a more adult manner? Obviously, people can and will do things to their bikes for reasons other than performance (I, myself have done so as well) but highlighting a potential performance issue is part of the reason this forum exists. We all like to run ideas by one another because it's not only possible, but likely that things have been overlooked or under-considered.
One of the very best things about this forum (in my opinion) is that people will not only tell you how to do something but will also tell you why should or should not do something. Any idiot can list instructions, but real teaching and learning is based upon critical thinking skills and understanding theories. So when you say the OP's question was answered, I have to disagree. A question like this is not answered simply with a list of instructions or a picture; other considerations come into play. So when you further add that the OP's question was answered and that further information is useless, I have to disagree on that point as well.
I believe swan's original statement was one that exemplifies what I love most about this forum and I found your response to be disrespectful and against the nature of what many of us hope to accomplish here (learning and teaching).
As for your AHRMA bikes, I don't really care. That's outside the scope of this discussion and I don't care to get into a pissing match with some guy on the Internet. All I'm asking is that you treat other folks here with a bit of respect and not just dismiss their comments offhand (which is blatantly what a response like, "LMAO", is doing).