My apologies if I butchered your words, Bill. I'll be more careful in the future ;) You are correct, there is no way that the Roadeo could fit 44's. The 38' are very tight as is. Probably not recommended and that's why Riv lists 35's as max.
I'm currently laid up with a broken leg, which is keeping me pretty immobile. (Not a bike accident) So, getting the bike down to take a picture is out of the question at the moment. As I recall there is about 1.5 mm of clearance (41 mm gap at chainstay). But, to not totally leave you wondering, here is a few pictures of the bike https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd3t8J1hh0b/?hl=en On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 11:43:42 AM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Careful there. That's not exactly what I said. Laing said he wanted a > stripped down roadbike that took 38 or 44 tires. Steve Palinscar responded > by recommending that Laing buy a Roadeo. I responded to Steve's > recommendation that a Roadeo "does not take 38 or 44 tires". In one sense, > I was wrong. If the question was "Does a Roadeo allow you to use EITHER > 38mm OR 44mm tires?" then you've shown the answer is yes. If the question > is "Does a Roadeo give me the freedom to run my choice of 38mm or 44mm > tires?" then the answer is no. > > It's cool that your Roadeo takes 38s, but I would bet a dollar that your > Roadeo can't take 44mm tires, and that's all I intended. > > Please post photos of the closest clearance spots on your Roadeo with > 700x38 tires, if you don't mind. What width rims are you running? > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > > On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 11:05:42 AM UTC-8, Ben Miller wrote: >> >> Bill Lindsay wrote that the Roadeo doesn't take 38mm tyres. >> >> That is what the official Riv geometry charts says. I however have been >> riding my Roadeo with Compass 700x38 tyres for at least 3000 km. >> >> Also, I'm basically at the opposite end from Laing. I wish my Roadeo came >> with Mid fork rack braze-ons and have often thought about adding them. >> >> Ben >> >> -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
