Dave B
02-16-2019, 05:19 PM
My beautiful wife wants me to put her Specialized Roll townie bike on my TACX Vortex smart trainer, so we can ride together and spend more time together. Fine no problem happy to have you next to me dear.
her bike has a 650C wheel with a 650C by 2.3 tire. The tire is both too tall and too wide to work on the trainer. The tire rubs the cut out for where the tire should spin through. They are balloon tires for cruising, nothing special and stock. This is the first time she has wanted to ride the bike indoors next to me since we got it for her and I have got to find the perfect tire for this to work.
I am only in search of a tire as a new wheel or anything along that route is not worth it to see if she even likes riding indoors. So the rims are 35mm wide from one outside to the other so let's say 30mm wide-ish inside.
What tire can I put on there that would both "work" with the width of that wheel and not, not sure how else to say it, but not stand so tall off of the rim. It sure doesn't have to be a nice tire, but just not a mtb tire, something slick or semi-slick.
any ideas let me know. I have been to the TACX website, emailed them a week ago and googled everything I could think of that might make sense. I have ZERO experience with 650 tires so I don't have anything to try.
thanks
Dave
her bike has a 650C wheel with a 650C by 2.3 tire. The tire is both too tall and too wide to work on the trainer. The tire rubs the cut out for where the tire should spin through. They are balloon tires for cruising, nothing special and stock. This is the first time she has wanted to ride the bike indoors next to me since we got it for her and I have got to find the perfect tire for this to work.
I am only in search of a tire as a new wheel or anything along that route is not worth it to see if she even likes riding indoors. So the rims are 35mm wide from one outside to the other so let's say 30mm wide-ish inside.
What tire can I put on there that would both "work" with the width of that wheel and not, not sure how else to say it, but not stand so tall off of the rim. It sure doesn't have to be a nice tire, but just not a mtb tire, something slick or semi-slick.
any ideas let me know. I have been to the TACX website, emailed them a week ago and googled everything I could think of that might make sense. I have ZERO experience with 650 tires so I don't have anything to try.
thanks
Dave