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06-11-20 | 08:27 AM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by Cougrrcj

Then there's this!

I really had no idea that there were so many totally different '26-inch' bicycle tires! I grew up riding 26x1-3/8 - which I now know was the 'non-Schwinn' ISO 590 E.A.3 size, not to be confused with the 26x1-3/8 ISO 597 Schwinn S-6 size, or the ISO 559 decimal size used on MTB and Cruisers... Lately, there has been a resurgence of ISO 584 650B which is also known as 26x1-1/2 or "27.5"...

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/26.html

Tire sizing is a mess. We really shouldn’t refer to bicycle tires by their outside diameter. We should refer to the ISO bead seat diameter which would ensure that we are getting the proper tire. 29er tires have confused things even more since they are ISO 622 tires that just happen to be wide.

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