Originally Posted by
SlimAgainSoon
I ride a LeMond Zurich ... made with 853 Reynolds. Came with bone-hard Rolf wheels. When I sold those and got some standard wheels, the ride suddenly turned ... dreamy...
It handles 25mm tires. I've squeezed a 28mm on the front (rear, no problem) but that's a tight fight. This is with the carbon fork. Some versions came with a steel fork, which is likely to have different dimensions.
So I'm riding 25mm front, 28mm rear.
Interesting. Those wheels are one of the premiums of the higher-level bikes. We spend an awful lot of time on BF talking about the ride qualities of frames and tires, not so much wheels.
Someone pointed out in another thread somewhere recently that Rolf does not support those wheels. They were made by Trek under license and are not "real" Rolfs, though the design is the same basic idea.