Originally Posted by
RubeRad
Yikes! What a (mis)adventure!
I can't see tire in the middle pic, but otherwise they look quite natural and well-fitting. You've got scads of room in the fork still, presumably plenty of clearance in the stays as well. And they don't look balloony on the rims at all.
The middle picture is from the perspective of the hub looking up at the rim. You can see the kenda sidewall logo on each side of the tire. They do bulge out from the narrow width of the rim a noticeable amount, but it doesn't look alarming.
Originally Posted by
RubeRad
Re presta in schraeder holes (is that how you ended up?) This can lead to explosive, unpatchable tube failure around the valve due to bulging through the oversize hole. I have heard they make little adapter nuts to fill that gap.
Geez. I probably shouldn't have been so impatient. I should have held out for schrader tubes, but they seem to be a little harder to find in the 700c tize. I didn't think about them bulging around the hole. I don't see what good an adapter nut would do because that screws on the tip of the valve on the metal part. It looks like I have two actual holes - one on the inner rim where the inner tube is, then there's the upper part of the rim (they look like aero rims) and another hole. The valve jiggles in there a little bit but I have that silver nut there to keep it stable. I just wonder about the rubber part near the hole in the inner rim. Ugh. Looks like I WILL be going through the same debacle again.
I'm about to go ride, but I'm not sure how much I'll enjoy it knowing there's a ticking time bomb in both of my wheels
