Re: Rim Brakes, MBs & Miles -a cautionary tale
Yeah, that's a good idea, to check with the flat ruler or something, but shouldn't be the only way use to check.
It's possible also that using tires much wider than the rim, or wider than intended, may leverage against the walls of the rim with dramatic force. Running wide tires is very popular on motor bicycles.
I don't think that theory holds water? As the O.P. had run of the mill wheels....they were not extra wide or anything to such a point.
It is easier to mount road bike spandex rider type tires to a rim they were more designed for on the road type repairs I think? My experience with mountain bike type wire bead tires is they run tighter tolerances to the rim than that of typical road bikes and can take incredible abuse!
When reading here they suggest a way better tool than a run of the mill plastic tire spoon for such tires.
http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/tire-and-inner-tube-replacement
I always peddled mountain bikes with touring road gear sets AKA work slacks/jeans were always perfect attire for me no spandex. Then when I showed up at work all I had to do was eat breakfast and lock the bike. I just never saw any need for those myself but that's truly just me..I throw that comment in as I am a different breed of rider than a tradition road bike and I do have mountain bikes with as much as 20,000 ''all'' peddled miles on them!
I have just begun to use Large Marge rims. Will have to report back.
I mean a guy can run different gears and get a 30 mile work out with out having to go 30 miles lol. My route to work errands etc were not allways 30 miles away.
Just the gutter in the cities streets is brutal on the average road bike! That's why you see many spandex attires blocking the road at times. Because the gutter will quite simply destroy their wheels! ''Warps flats etc'' Those wheels are designed to be light and easily serviceable as a road bike guy wants the least amount of exercise.. they want competitive racing speed and the skinniest tires they can achieve. . In loo of some of that with cutting weight being the major objective and even some of the carbon fiber creations I don't see those as more durable?
In my Humble opinion I think a larger tire has some inherent flex that I think could very well prove more forgiving on a rim. As the tire easily gives takes the abuse and not the rim. The new going craze about solid tubeless tires would be very hard on spokes as the weight would be centrally located at one region of the spokes and not shared on a distributable pad of air.
