About the only time a rim is too wide is if the rim is wider than the tire ! I recall back in the day riding on Specialized 1.5" tires on Araya 7x rims which are 32.2mm . Wider rims give better tire profiles than narrow ones. In pro road racing for example, they run rims that are near the same width as the tires for the least air turbulence. We're talking like a 23/25mm tire on a 23mm rim or a 25/28mm tire on a 25mm rim. Of course this doesn't matter for us but offering this as an example of just how close rim and tire width can be. No longer are the days of running the narrowest rims you can find to run a tire more than twice it's width.
On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 3:48:40 AM UTC-4, drew wrote: > > Ok leaning toward cliffhangers. They won't be too wide for a 46mm tire, > right? I'm thinking I'll run compass sbh or wtb horizon for most regular > riding and then have the option to put something bigger on for off road > trips. -- 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.
