Yup, it always turns out to be more practical in theory than practice. Wheel sizes, hub lengths, bike clearance always make it less doable than we would wish. The other reality is that bikes, despite their designers claims of versatility always excel within a narrow tire size range and design. However, I regularly swap wheels under the following conditions: a change of season, just like the car one bike has summer and winter wheels; when I go out to the garage and discover a flat that I don't feel like messing with; when a tire blows up and I'm ten miles from home and late for work, I call my wife who brings me a spare wheel. This last scenario has occurred a total of one time in 30+ years of riding!
BTW It's way too cold in Vermont for me to even consider riding. Michael 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.
