Old 12-14-10 | 01:45 PM
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prathmann
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Originally Posted by rando
after several years, I just switched the 23 (cm?) tires on my commuter to 28s!
23 cm would be a pretty wide car tire - if these are for a bicycle then you're dealing with widths in mm. Not sure why there's such a tendency to randomly add the 'c' after tire widths these days. Presumably it came from the 700c rim size which has nothing to do with cm - just that there were various width rims: 700a, 700b, 700c, 700d and only the 700c size happened to remain popular. But labeling tire widths with a 'c' as in 23c, 32c, etc. makes no sense.
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