Originally Posted by
krome
Except those Schwinns that have 571 rims (another 26" fractional size in the US).
Those are among the hardest to find rims and tyres there are... they are like a number of other rim and tyre combinations that are obsolete like the French 500a.
The French system originally used the letter to denote width with A being narrow and B, C, and D being wider tyres but now every 622 rim is called a 700c when this was originally a higher volume tyre.