speedy25

I hope the OP actually got the information he needed amongst the silly chatter.

Since you dont know WHY the tire is flat you need to remove the current tube, ait it up and check for leaks. Best way is to immerse it in water and look for bubbles. If the damage is small you can patch it. Next line up the damage with the tire and look to see if something is still stuck in the tire. DONT use your hands to find it like I have. If you do have bandaids ready!

700 is the tube diameter. look to see that the numbered range after it include 38. Slightly smaller is better than slightly bigger.

Hope this helps you in getting back to riding.

-SP

LesterOfPuppets

For bicycle tires the 28" nomenclature has been most common in continental Europe.

Target has starting calling their hybrid tired bikes 28", however, so it may get a foothold in USA.

Al1943

You do realize the OP posted this thread nearly 4 years ago?

Ramona_W

Jesus, man. We sell 700c tires at Walmart. Hop on your back up bike, ride down to your nearest Supercenter, walk into the Toy Department, plunk down your $14.95, ride home, put it on, and pump it up. Why worry about the 28" X 1 5/8" blah blah blah if you don't have to?

JanMM

bikeboy hasn't been here since November of 2010.

LesterOfPuppets

Yes this is now an argument about which standard is standard.

I'm gonna consider metric a fad until they come up with metric time

Ramona_W

My advice remains valid.

speedy25

Doh! Usually I'm the one catching those dates and making a necro-posting remark.

Thanks for reminding me to look at the post dates more Al.

-SP

Al1943

No problem, we've all done it before.

Jax Rhapsody

Inches aren't a part of the metric system. A lot of things are metric, but the usa standards are still inches, feet, yards, and miles.

LesterOfPuppets

Yes, but 700c has typically been used in the USA to describe the 622 tire size. I've seen 28" to describe the 622 size on Italian and German products for a couple of decades but before I saw 28" on spoke cards on bikes in Target starting just a few years ago I'd never seen them called as such in the USA.

Jax Rhapsody

I know, if you look at the sheldon brown link on the first page, youll see the meteric measurment for every bike wheel. 700c has little to do with the actual size- 622mm. It's also a european wheel size that we adapted, which is why it's called 700c, or 700b, or 650b. Inches are standard although metrics are adopted, that's why most people call the other standard/common wheel size; 26" versus 559mm. While they were running 700C's in europe, we were running 27's. Why do you think the americanized version of them are called 29's? Bikes are just one thing where metrics is normally an adopted wide use, I don't know why, especially when other vehicles are measured in inches, etc. I don't know where the 28" thing comes from either since 700C's are noticably, obviously smaller than 27" wheels. I learned that when a buddy helped me force a 700c tire on a 27" rim... yeah we got it on there too.

LesterOfPuppets

700c is a French convention I think. Not sure why Continental and Vittoria would label the tires 28". Perhaps for the British market?

In 1984 Schwinn was using 700c in their catalogs, you'd think if any one American back then would be using 28" to denote 700c it would be Schwinn.

LesterOfPuppets

Ahhh, I see Sheldon says 28" was a Northern European thing, which explains the Continentals.

Maybe Vittoria was big in Germany, etc, so did the 28" labels for them.

LesterOfPuppets

Ahhh, I see Sheldon says 28" was a Northern European thing, which explains the Continentals.

Maybe Vittoria was big in Germany, etc, so did the 28" labels for them.

LesterOfPuppets

Another interesting Italian point of reference. The 1981 Bianchi catalog uses the 28" nomenclature for 700c.

So I don't think Vittoria was just doing 28" for the Germans.