As this road disc bike category is only a few years old bike companies have made their frames wide enough to fit and deliver the benefits of these and even wider wheels and tires.
Wider road bike rims.
Of all the components that can affect the character of a bike wheels arguably have the best ability to make or break the way a bike rides.
The best road bike wheels can all but transform your.
The ctc recommends the ideal relationship between a rim and tyre as being about 1 8 times.
On a wider rim tyre combo getting to bike over on an angle to corner fast is a more natural dynamic affair supported by more rubber on the road on a tyre that has a very constant u shape.
Despite the 21 5mm wide tubeless compatible aluminum rims industry nine s new ar25 disc all road wheelset supposedly tips the scales at just 1 440g bucking the notion that wider wheels have to.
While you could fit any width tyre to any width rim it s best to find a suitable width rim to match the tyre width.
If your road bike was built in the last 20 years and has rim brakes it most likely has a 130mm width quick release rear axle written as 130mm qr or 130 9mm and a 100mm 100 qr or 100.