Some of the tires I used a scaling caliper and some I used a square with MM markings and a CD case. The square with CD case worked quite well, just put the square against the tire, slide the CD case (or any square cornered object) down the edge of the square untill it touches the tire and read the measurement.
I did all my measurements 3 times on difrent parts of the tire and used the average.
If you don’t have a square I am sure you could make a pretty decent one with two rulers and some glue.
oh yah, forgot I gave my measurements in inches, I devided by 25.4 to get inches so I could compare to what they were “suposed” to be.
swapped out my 29" tire. After about 100km of use the Schwable RR 2.4 stretched another 3mm to end up at 2.60" wide on my 50mm rims and the WTB ExiWolf 2.3 that I just put on came out to 2.36"
Kenda Blue Groove 26" 2.5 - 62/559 folding bead version on new 26" Qu-Ax MUni rim “DB 26 X”, 40mm wide, at arround 18psi and 100km of riding: 62mm. Tread is widest.
No, they were out of stock on the sale priced 2.5’s, so I got a FR (dual compound, 2 ply sidewall) version. But when I looked last night, they had the cheap sticky 2.5’s again. Oh well, it should last a little longer.
tubeless is a conversion you do to make your tires run without tubes they are a little hard to do you can get kits http://www.notubes.com/tubeless_system.php?cPath=21_58
with tubeless you don;t get pinch flats, i have run over nails and a re-bar once and my tire went flat then i spun the tire around a couple of times and then i used my trial pump and it was holding air so i rode back to the truck i do not recommend running a patched tire for long so if you run over something replace your tire asap
WTB Stout 29 x 2.3 on a 47mm KH FR Rim = 2.25" case, 2.4" tread
Duro Wildlife 26 x 3 on a LM 65mm = 2.8"
Intense DH 26 x 2.5 Frolite SR 50 on a 47mm K1 = 2.5"
Notice that the Intense DH 2.5 was actually narrower on the LM rim. This seems to result from the tire being stretched too wide, so the sidewalls pulled in and made the tire cross section narrower.
So I decided to put a true 3’ tire on the LM and keep the 2.5 for the narrower rims; yeah, like 47mm is narrow
My muni stable is getting outta hand:
Ti 26 x 2.5
Surly 26 x 3
KH 29 x 2.5
KH 36 x 2.5
My son:
KH 24 x 3
KH Trials
Just sold a Nimbus II 24" Freestyle, so I guess that’ll make some room…
Schwalbe Hans Dampf 29x2.35 (Folding, Pacestar; new) 47mm KH rim @ 20 PSI = 2.4"
I was a little surprised the casing didn’t measure significantly wider than the wire bead Wolverine 2.2 but the Hans does weigh about 100g less and should offer much improved grip; both good things.
Schwalbe Hans Dampf 29x2.35 (Folding, Pacestar; new) on 47mm KH rim @ 20 PSI = 2.4"
I was a little surprised the casing didn’t measure significantly wider than the wire bead Wolverine 2.2 but the Hans does weigh about 100g less and should offer much improved grip; both good things.
