I don't have a lot of experience with what you've outlined and asked about (those specific dimensions), however, I'll share my experience with my Salsa Fargo, as in the end it brought me here!
It came mounted with 29x2.2". From the first test ride I knew it was for me, as a drop bar mtb / monster cross bike for local mixed surface trails. When winter came I wanted to use it with narrower tires, minimal tread, as it would only be ridden on the road. I swapped the tires with 43mm GKSS. I didn't like the way it handled. I'm assuming it affected the trail? In any case, it wasn't that stable ride I enjoyed. What brought me here, to this forum and wanting a Roadini - I needed a bike for those tires! And it worked out great...the 43mm GKSS are perfect on the Roadini. On Monday, May 27, 2024 at 5:18:52 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > Frames are designed to handle best with wheels of a certain diameter with > tires of a certain width, but sometimes you can vary tire size and get away > with it without making the bike handle strangely or risking pedal strike. > > Instance: 25 years ago I built up several nice pre-susp mtbs with 3 > wheels, 2" knobbies, ~26" in diameter, 32-5 mm slicks, ~25" in diameter, > for commuting, and gofast wheels with 26X1" = 22-23 mm in real world width > Specialized Turbos (nice tires), 24", for unladed weekend pavement riding. > So, diameters from 26" to 24". A bit later I had 2 wheelsets for my 1992 > XO-1, 24" diameter Turbos and 25" diameter Tioga City Slickers. The > skinnies made the bike a bit quicker to turn. > > With the converted mtbs, the bikes handled very nicely with 2" tires, > quite nicely with ~32s, and horribly with 22 mm actual Turbos -- twitchy in > straight line, hesitant and inconsistent in turns. > > That was the long windup to this question: for a frame designed for "up to > 622X 60s and 584 X 80s"(+ fenders) -- both about 750 mm in diameter, and, > #2, one that in fact handles very nicely with 622 X 50s -- ~730 mm -- how > skinny can one go before compromising handling? > > I have no interest in installing 23s, but I think of installing extralight > 42s, 714 mm diameter, so a 3/4' or 19 mm drop in real world bb height. > > Any thoughts? > > Background: I got a second wheelset for the Matthews #1 "road bike for > dirt" for 50 mm* RH Oracle Ridge tires. I meant ot have this knobby > wheelset for our sandy dirt and leave the original, otherwise identical, > wheelset with the 50 mm Soma Supple Vitesse SLs for pavement riding, this > after I discovered that the Somas do poorly on sandy surfaces. > > It turns out that the Oracles roll and handle closely enough to the Somas > that I rather think it's redundant to have a road wheelset with 50 mm > tires, even though these Somas at 360 grams roll exceptionally well and > make this bike handle much like my Riv Roads. > > So I wonder about 42s -- no narrower, unless you present good evidence for > narrower -- for lighter weight and perhaps handline a wee bit "crisper." > > * ~Actual widths for both OR and SSVSL. > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- 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/55c106b1-4ed5-46a3-951f-3b660ec3c4ben%40googlegroups.com.
