I think that what BQ/Compass in fact claims is that the gyroscopic factors determined by tire diameter and width and of course weight at the given distance from the axle result in the best handling when the perimeter of the wheel is about 13.5" from the axle. They don't to my knowledge use the word "degrade", which I think conveys a misapprehension.
As to their precise claim, as above, I am skeptical, since Grant at least seems in my experience (3 26" wheel custom roads) to have devised a way to make very light, 24.5" to 25" actual diameter wheels behave superbly; and while my Fargo with 700C C 50 to 65 mm wheels doesn't handle nearly as nicely, I put that down to the mtb-type geometry, at least in good part, and not solely to the size of the wheels. On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Lungimsam <john11.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 3. They also state that handling on 700c bikes degrades with any tire > wider than 35mm. They believe running wider tires is best on a 650b bike > because they keep their nimble handling with wider tires. They say that the > reason they do make wider than 700 x 35mm tires is to help 700c-ers get to > experience the cush of wider tires. But they believe handling degrades at > anything wider than 35mm on a 700c wheeled bike. Unless Compass/BQ has > changed their position since I last read. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
