btw: update: my rims are maverick a sym 532, and tires are kenda kwickirollers 35
On May 11, 12:58 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I switch between small, very light and lightly shod wheels and quite > heavy (both tires and wheels) 700c wheels and such a difference as > described ought to be very apparent given the difference in these > wheelsets. But I don't find the smaller wheels slower at all; in fact, > on level ground (where overall bike weight ought to have little > effect) I routinely maintain higher speeds on the small wheel bikes > than on the big wheel bikes. I can indeed notice a different feel, but > in practical terms the small and light wheels don't slow me down. > > Also, Jan's idea that smaller wheels ought to have fatter tires for > the best handling compared to larger wheels has not been true in my > experience. Again, I can tell that 22 mm, 190 gram Turbos make a 26" > wheel bike quicker to respond on the front end than, say, 32 mm > Paselas ar 35 mm Tioga City Slickers, but the handling of my two > later Rivs, designed with slacker heads and very long stays, has > always been impeccable compared to whatever else I've ridden -- and > I've ridden some nice bikes beside the Rivs, too. > > The first 26" wheel custom did feel better with 32 mm tires than with > 22 mm tires, but that also was not as well designed as #s 2 and 3 and > had a steeper head and a more forward weight bias thanks to the short > 42.5 cm stays (the others have stays 2 cm longer). > > Overall, do small wheels make a huge difference to bigger wheels? > After all is said and done, no. I can certainly feel the difference > but a nice, light 700c wheelset shod with light, supple and fast tires > would in terms of the clock be just as fast overall, even if the small > wheels might have a small, perhaps even merely theoretical, advantage > on climbs. > > (Note: the original 8-sp era Ultegra/SunM14A/32 g Revolution wheelset > I had first built for #2 weighed 1550 grams complete -- 675 front, 875 > rear -- with Velox, sans tires, tube, skewers and cassette. The Turbos > weigh 190 grams new.) > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:42 PM, cyclotour...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > <cyclotour...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would it be good to have approximately the same wheel mass as your > > 700C friends. If you go lighter you would have less inertia and have > > to spin more to keep up. Heavier and acceleration would be slower. > > Long way of saying maybe you could have too light a wheelset??? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
