On 01/07/2014 07:55 AM, Tony DeFilippo wrote:
If you have them, how often do you take advantage of multiple
wheelset's on a bike? So far in my bike tinkering I have usually been
limited by multiple wheel sizes or rear drop outs to making each build
a stand alone, frame specific function. I have this thought that
significant interchangeability among multiple bikes would be some kind
of nirvana... I'm curious to hear anyone who has it or has at some
point had it on whether you really took advantage of it.
Right now between 6 active bikes and a tandem (two are my wife's) I
have 27"(1), 26"(2), 700C(2) and 650B(2) wheel sizes and 130/135 OLD
represented, among those 3 or 4 bikes could fit the wheel's off of one
other bike but in practice I'm not doing any wheel swaps as each one
is built up and shod with a tire that matches the frame's intended
function and I don't have any spare wheelset's at present.
One classic use: a set of light tubular racing wheels and a sturdier,
less expensive set of clincher wheels & tires for training and
non-racing use. Back in the day, the whole point of 700C was that it
was the same size as tubular, allowing this kind of switching back and
forth. Not that I've ever done anything like that.
With both sets clinchers, you could still do the same idea: a
lightweight set with "event" tires, and a sturdier set for
training/everyday use. If you live in a place where snow tires make
sense, you could have the studded snow tires on one set of wheels,
ordinary tires on another, making the switch when it snows a 2 minute
rather than a 15 minute job, and with little to no pumping involved. I
don't do that either.
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