Very true; narrower rims require higher pressures. Still, you can go pretty low. My 71 mm Rangers are mounted tubeless on 24 mm OW non-tubeless Alex rims and there's no squirm or "wrinkle" in cornering or on bumps; the tires feel very "solid" and not mushy. Me + Monocog about 200 lb.
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 5:48 AM ascpgh <asc....@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is a realistic limit to how low to go with fat tires, the rim 's > internal bead hook (or hookless) width will become the controller of that. > The cross section of the installed tire on the rim makes a circle of mostly > tire, bead to bead, closed by the rim. Narrow the rim and more of the > circle is tire rather than aluminum, soft tire as you reduce inflation. You > just want to stay above the point where you on the bike, doing what you do > while riding (stop, start, steer, veer and hit bumps sticks rocks) doesn't > cause the tire to wrinkle up instead of responding to your will. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguWsKtgUBggZc3nEPWFywdNpOE7mnvgB%2Bsj17wu2Y%2Br4A%40mail.gmail.com.
