i now have 4 bikes in the house that take 700c wheels. i never swap wheels between the bikes :). I could since each one has slightly different tires, but i'm with Tom that i could change a tires in 10-15 minutes and rarely am i in the situation that i need to change tires every few days. I could switch wheels to go from a 'light set' to a 'burly set' but again, i'm not fast enough that a light set would make a difference or heavy enough that i need something heavy duty so all my wheels are more towards the middle anyway. Now like Tom, i have too many bikes so instead of having extra wheels i have extra-bikes too, so that may skew my opinion.
Another situation i'd present is the Dyno-wheel one, i know some people have only 1 dyno wheel and swap between bikes, but that to me is like a light you move between bikes, you have to plan ahead of time knowing you will need lights. If you have the means, i'd prefer to have them all the time (again for me i'm ignoring the 'penalty' of a dyno wheel). To me, swapping wheels between bikes makes sense on paper but i'm too lazy and have the space (ha) for the extra bikes so in practice i could not do it. if you're more disciplined, i think you could make it worthwhile. On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 7:55:01 AM UTC-5, 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. > > Tony > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
