Originally Posted by
Pompiere
I keep seeing this statement repeated, but both pairs of Paselas that I have measure exactly what the sidewall says they should.
Mine too. All five bikes within a mm or what they claim to be, certainly not a whole size too small.
Originally Posted by
Wogster
I think 1" was about it, there may have been some custom ones, there were two issues, one is that hooked rims were not common in that size, and without it, you were pretty much limited to 80PSI and lower.
In fact, I don't recall ever seeing any reference to hooked rims at all back then. Of course I may have forgotten. I ran them at the rated psi on the straight-sided Fiamme Yellow Label clincher rims, not a superb rim but light. Never had a blow-out until recently when I tried running a 25mm Pasela on them at its rated 115psi. That prompted me to rebuild the wheels with different rims.