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01-13-03, 10:50 AM
I'm switching now from normal 28mm tires to armadillo tires, and the one thing everybody says is that the armadillos are very heavy and thus slow you down. The main thing, of course, is to not have flats! But I also would like them not to be slowing me down a whole lot. So I was thinking about going with the 26mm armadillos. Then, I read a post here by pat so and so, who said that the tire width you need is dependant on the rim width. Pat said your tire cross-section must be larger than your rim. I'm not sure what that means. Does that mean that the width (28, 26, etc.) of the tire should be greater than the width of the rim, or something else?