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Old 11-10-24 | 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by grumpus
. Switch to a 700C rim which is 4 mm smaller radius and you have a much wider choice of tyres, but with anything wider than 35 mm you'll likely start to have clearance problems, usually between the chain stays.
And then you might run into problems making your brake calipers reach. But, hey, you won't know til you try.
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