The velocity nobs rim is really good. Not pretty but sturdy, functional wide and NO BS.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:47 PM Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > All, much appreciate your comments. I learned a bunch of interesting > details! Thank you. > > I'm considering Dyad. But I've also been told that the A23 OC makes for a > stronger rim. I have to call Rich sometime. > > The Quill rim has a staggeringly wider range (25mm - 47mm), but that's way > more money than I'm likely to invest. > > > > On Sunday, 10 March 2019 15:18:25 UTC-7, Mark Anderson wrote: >> >> A wider-than-recomended tire is unlikely to blow off an undamaged rim due >> directly to the weight of the bike. That's not really how clinchers work. >> >> An important part of the upper limit on width from Velocity's perspective >> is that very wide tires run at high pressures can lead to rim failure, >> likely in the form of cracked webs and/or sidewalls. If you are pumping up >> those 50 mm tires to 90 psi, then you're probably out of spec. for the >> Atlas rim. You'd also be nuts to do so for any number of other reasons. >> If you're using sane pressures for your weight (what, 25-35 psi? Less? I >> haven't weighed that little since I was ten...), 50s on Atlas and 45s on >> the A23 are probably fine structurally. Just ride in the rain enough and >> you'll wear out the brake tracks before fatigue failure wrecks the rim >> anyway. >> >> One reason to use a wider rim on your prospective AHH is that (many) >> caliper brake quick releases just open the brake a certain amount relative >> to the operational setting. Thus, the wider the rim, the wider the >> inflated tire that can pass through the opened brakes. >> >> -- >> Mark Anderson in Chicago >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
