"I’m not sure how wide I can go," There's no hard number that we can guarantee. If you want to run 80mm wide fat bike tires, that's probably too much. If you want to run 60mm tires, that's probably fine. If you want us to collectively identify the absolute widest tire on Earth that is absolutely guaranteed to work on your bike on your bike packing trip, no matter what the conditions, then that's harder. I agree with the above that I would have no problem running 55mm Rene Herse tires on Velocity Atlas rims.
Is there a particular tire that you want group "permission" to run? What is the tire clearance on this other bike? Related to super-fat tires on super narrow rims is brake pad considerations. With cantilevers and fixed-arm V-brakes, the brake pads dive as they come in. Wide tires can get cozy with that brake pad path, and you need to pay attention to it. Parallelogram-type V-brakes move the pads in a better line relative to that overhanging tire side wall. All this stuff is manageable, if one keeps track of it. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 6:12:12 AM UTC-8 Drew Fitchette wrote: > Hey all, > > Wanted to ask as I see lots of differing opinions from wheel/tire > manufacturers about proper tire width for different rim widths. I’d always > heard you don’t want your tire more than twice the internal width of your > rim, but the RH website has a table and some blog posts to the contrary. I > also > saw on the WTB site something similar. > > I know context matters a lot, so for reference I’ve got a set of Velocity > Atlas Rims (19.8mm internal width) and a set of 44mm RH tires(the high end > of Velocity’s suggestion) on them but was looking to move them over to a > frame with wider clearances than my Sam. I’m not sure how wide I can go, > RH’s table says up to 55 and WTB says 50. > > Moving them because I’m planning a trail/mostly off-road camping trip for > spring and this wheelset has a Dynamo. > > Thanks for any guidance/advice! > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/9c4e4cb6-2f9d-4e64-a609-6ca578aa774an%40googlegroups.com.
