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Old 10-31-14 | 06:42 PM
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Has a magic bike
 
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Bikes: 2018 Scott Spark, 2015 Fuji Norcom Straight, 2014 BMC GF01, 2013 Trek Madone

My Garmin crashed today. Totally locked up. Per Garmin, I had to reformat the device and reinstall an updated version of the software. Now I'm trying to set up my bike profiles again and the Garmin wants to know what my wheel size is in mm. How in the heck do I figure that out?

I googled it of course and found the following:
"Most of you know, and no shame if you don’t, that 700C is the dominant wheel size in the modern bike world, and the biggest of the top three. The other two are 26-inches, and 650B. It sounds like two languages, but when you translate them all to rim diameters, as people rarely do but always should, it goes like this: 700C = 622 millimeters, 650B = 584 millimeters, 26-in = 559 millimeters"

So if I look at the wheels on the Magic Bike and it says "max tire dimension 700 x 25 cm," does that mean that my wheel size is 700C and I should enter 622mm in the Garmin?
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