Road Bike Rim Diameter

Road bike rims cannot accommodate mountain bike tires and vice versa.

Road bike rim diameter. We recommend that you use the traditional sizing method wherever possible as most tyres that we stock use this system. The standard road bike rim size is 700c with the name coming from an approximate metric measurement taken from the diameter of the wheel including an inflated tyre. Before setting out to match a tire to your rim make sure you know what type of bike you have. So the a standard road bike rim is likely to have markings of 622 x 19.

Older road bikes went out of fashion in the early 1980s. 1979 mm 77 9 inches. At first tyre dimensions were expressed through mounted and inflated tyre outer diameter. Mountain bike riders should know the difference between slick and knobby tires.

When a 2 wide tyre is mounted on such rim the outer diameter of such wheel with inflated tyre is around 660 mm. As it happened the bike industry came to describe and market road category drop bar products in c and millimeters and mountain bike products in inches. The history of that name would need a whole other blog post to fully explain but the short version is that it came from international tire sizes where the outside diameter would be approximately 700mm and multiple rim sizes would be labeled 700a 700b 700c etc. 1954 mm 76 9 inches.

That is why today we still often see mtb tyres noted as 26 tyres or 28 tyres for road bicycles. In 1913 at his paris studio duchamp mounted the bicycle wheel upside down onto a stool spinning it occasionally just to watch it. Later he denied that its creation was purposeful though it has come to be known as the first of his readymades. The closest rim we got is the r25 17 9mm internal 25mm outer width 25mm depth.

So the rim spec will be 622 x then another number this other number will refer to the rim s internal width for a road bike this could be a number from 13mm up to 25mm with most road bike rims in the 18 19 mm area. It s the same with our r rims 700c road. The standard modern road bike wheel has an iso diameter of 622 mm and is referred to as 700c makes sense right. Bicycle wheel is a readymade from marcel duchamp consisting of a bicycle fork with front wheel mounted upside down on a wooden stool.

A distinguishing feature on road bikes is their large diameter yet narrow rims. Rim diameter of a mtb is 559 mm. 29 inch are fat tires same rim diameter. 700 c 28 x 1 5 8 29 inch 28 x 1 1 2 f 13 canada most newer adult bikes for road use use this size including most road bikes and hybrids.

Hi hart the internal width of the dm18 is 17 9 18mm.