Though some sort of fixture is likely needed I doubt it would be all that hard to rig up something adequate. Certainly measuring tire drop would be less trouble than the roll down testing you have done. But I think the real question is whats so special about 15% drop. I can't recall seeing any supporting argument / evidence for it being optimal.
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:47:57 PM UTC-8, Jan Heine wrote: > > On Saturday, January 19, 2013 6:48:46 PM UTC-8, Philip Williamson wrote: > > >> Maybe this summer we could have a crowd-sourced internet tire drop >> measuring party... Lots of 40+ mm tires on this list, and lots of careful >> people. >> >> Measuring tire drop isn't easy. Berto built a big device to do it. I > think it could be simplified, but it's not something you can do with just > your bike and a ruler... > > Jan Heine > Editor > Bicycle Quarterly > www.bikequarterly.com > > Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
