Originally Posted by
DubT
I know from what has been posted in this thread that there are many theoretical advantages to using wider rims. Now can anyone show from a real world application that going from a 19mm rim to a 23mm rim has made them any faster, reduced their number of flats, allowed them to corner faster etc. I would like to actually see real hard data. I have lived in the engineering and marketing world so I am familiar with how new ideas can be spun. Show me the beef! LOL, hopefully some of you can remember that commercial.
Dub; It would be great to see hard data "fer sure". However the scenario posied can only generate soft data...i.e,. layman's experential data, probably based on uncertain parameters, and a propulation of only 2 or 3. Thus of very limited value in the big picture.
I would like to toss you a few soft data bones, but frankly (not the welder) when I buy a bike with inappropriately skinny rims, I just pull them off and put on a set of wheels built the way I think they should be built (wide and many spoked). Thus I generate no supporting data for post analysis. I have already been convinced also without aid of a lab.
Besides it is always easy to unload the original skinny rim wheels to the gram counters and racer boys for a good bit more than it costs (materials + a bit of labor) it takes to make a proper (sic) set of wheels.
/K