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.
Wider road bike rims.
The ctc recommends the ideal relationship between a rim and tyre as being about 1 8 times.
Whereas 17c stock wheel rims typically have an outside width of 21 23mm wide across their brake tracks 19c stock wheel rims typically run 25 27mm outside widths.
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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.
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.
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.