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If you are trying to go modern extra wide wheels in a frame like that you are in bad luck. How old is the frame? like 15 or 20 years old?
Looks like frame is titanium... honestly I do not see the problem of going 22 mm rims with 23 mm clinchers. Personally Im not like super fan of wider rims, I have some wheels with wide rims tho and dont like the handling too much with wider rims but that's debatable as everything in life, just my preference. If you dont weight too much always you can go with a nice pair of costume built tubular wheels, you can go old school like a gp4 rim and put 23mm tubulars in those wheels for example. |
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Bike in question: https://bikerumor.com/2012/06/20/new...kes-ti-racier/
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Congrats on the weight loss! I dropped around 25lbs myself over the past few months and decided to keep the Columbine I was potentially going to sell. Like the Guru it is limited to 25mm tires. I was contemplating swapping the silver 8spd chorus for the modern 11spd Campagnolo group that I removed from my Great Divide and some more modern wide wheels, but I just haven’t brought myself around to do it just yet and not really sure the wheels I have will fit with enough clearance. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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“the industry’s only 1” ti chainstays.....well we probably know why this is the case!
Some great thoughts above on going with a narrower rim and wider tire....vs. wide rim + wide tire.....that would be my suggestion. Plenty of "older"/narrow-rim options to choose from, even with carbon. |
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Does the fork /brake have the clearance needed? Obviously the challenge here is the frame is built for older narrower rims and 23's - this is the same situation with my peg. I'm happy running 23/25 on C15 shamal mille on that frame. |
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I can say with confidence (I measured) that my Schwalbe 23s are 25mm wide as they sit on my bike right now. Here's Hed's recommendations on rim/tires and notes about resulting tire width. It falls in line with my experiences. Quote:
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Then i retire what i said... and i will say this... guru made stuff for racing in particular, they werent your trek mtb dressed like road bike type of bike frames design.
Other manufacturers come to mind that did the same than guru like for example ridley, and we are talking about the same era 2012 ish they were still making racing bikes for 23 mm wide tires, even you still can find riders complaining because 25s barely fit or their 28s dont fit, which for me is not an issue... racing bike stuff and go touring stuff back 10 years ago was still well defined. Have a cyfac and that one clearly wont clear 27 mm tubulars, 25's clearing in the chainstays is really tight and from what i gather other cyfac models are the same way, no idea about more modern cyfac tho, but mine is around 2012 aswell... around that era you started seeing more 28mm tires friendly wheels because the market was going that way. I would put 25 or 23 mm tubulars and call it a day, u might even like the ride better with 23's tubulars. Yes, bringing up again the tubulars clinchers discussion :P Nice bike man... have to try one of those one day. Quote:
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It is definitely a nice ride and thanks Adam for a very good deal. I am surprised Guru doesn't get more love around here. It is definitely a racier bike but I have grown to like the ride a lot. The ride of my expired Merlin Extralight is "smoother" but this one is a different kind of "nice." I don't think I will go tubular because I will never race, and I do have worries about punctures on the road.
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