If I'm understanding the prevailing chatter from the roadie/track world correctly, rims as wide as the mounted tires has been a buzz-concept for the last few years. H+Son seems to have been the first to push it, with 23mm road clinchers recommended for the 23mm TB14 rim. I don't keep up with roadie/FG fashions enough to know whether that's been widely adopted, but I've heard about it plenty.
http://www.hplusson.com/products/TB14 Peter Adler Berkeley, CA/USA On Thursday, September 4, 2014 10:41:41 AM UTC-7, Anne Paulson wrote: > > If you think about it, you realize that putting a tire on a too-narrow > rim will make it narrower, because you have decreased the total > circumference of the cross-section. Putting a tire on a too-wide rim > will make it flatter, because the tire has to stretch out to reach the > two sides of the rim. I don't know that a 50 mm tire is too narrow > for a 50 mm rim, but I've been told that a good rule of thumb is not > to put a tire on a rim that is wider than the tire, and that sounds > right to me. So a 50 mm tire would be just on the edge of > appropriateness for a Rabbit Hole rim. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
