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how much will tyre width (i.e. knob width) be affected by moving to a wider rim?
i have precious little space to play with, but would like to move up to a sun ringle mtx33 from a mavic tn719...


 
Posted : 03/01/2013 9:41 am
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Guestimate it'll be about a factor of 3 (i.e. pi) as your changeing the circumfrance of the tyres cross section.

TN 719 = 19mm
MTX33 = 26mm

So 7mm different, so the tyre will be about 2mm bigger?


 
Posted : 03/01/2013 9:52 am
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the pi thing makes sense, ta much for the reply.


 
Posted : 03/01/2013 11:09 am
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Id keep the Mavic rim over some tat Sunn rim anyday.

It will give you a flatter tyre profile also


 
Posted : 03/01/2013 12:35 pm