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- From: tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen)
- Subject: Re: Tire width question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.102809.6709@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1993Jan21.152633.18381@mcc.com> <1993Jan21.170825.24144@novell.com> <1993Jan21.121921.585@doc.bmd.trw.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 10:28:09 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1993Jan21.121921.585@doc.bmd.trw.com> ohlwiler@doc.bmd.trw.com writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.170825.24144@novell.com>,
- >chandler@wc.novell.com (Mark Chandler) writes:
- >> In article <1993Jan21.152633.18381@mcc.com> spencer@mcc.com (Steve Spencer) writes:
- >>>I recently purchased a touring bike and I would like to install wider tires on it.
- >>>It currently has 27x1 inch tires on Mavic MA40 rims. What is the widest tire that
- >>>will fit on this rim? I would like to put Michelin Hi Lite touring tires (27x1 3/8)
- >>>on it.
- >>
- >> Let's put it this way, "How much clearance do your frame and brakes have?"
- >> You can run 700x45C tires on these w/o problems (Bruce Gordon has been selling
- >> bikes with this combination for years). Mountain bikes used very fat (2"+)
- >> tires on these rims also. The Hi-Lite Tours (good tires, by the way) will
- >> be no problem.
- >
- >Mark has been a source of valuable information in the past. In this instance
- >his experiences do not mirror mine.
- [stuff deleted]
-
- not to mention that the original poster has 27 inch wheels and the
- response talked about 700C tires. there shouldn't be any problems
- using the 27 x 1 3/8 tires - my friend has been using MA-40 and
- specialized expedition tires in 27 x 1 3/8 for quite a while.
-
- -teddy
-