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Old 07-19-22 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by 70sSanO
Want more comfort?

Change your rim profile and tires.

John

Edit… Shallower rim and wider tires. A few more spokes wouldn’t hurt.
Fiddling with rims and spoke count won't help with comfort. Compared to tires, deflection of even the lowest profile rim is insignificant.

Measured radial compliance of a typical wheel rim is ~0.0003 mm/Newton, or about 0.14 mm for an average adult.

An average adult deflects a typical road tire ~6 mm.
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