The best road bike wheels can all but transform your.
Wider road bike rims.
If your road bike was built in the last 20 years and has rim brakes it most likely has a 130mm width quick release rear axle written as 130mm qr or 130 9mm and a 100mm 100 qr or 100.
Wider rims and wider tyres gives better cornering.
Whereas 17c stock wheel rims typically have an outside width of 21 23mm wide across their brake tracks 19c stock wheel rims typically run 25 27mm outside widths.
While you could fit any width tyre to any width rim it s best to find a suitable width rim to match the tyre width.
Of all the components that can affect the character of a bike wheels arguably have the best ability to make or break the way a bike rides.
Despite the 21 5mm wide tubeless compatible aluminum rims industry nine s new ar25 disc all road wheelset supposedly tips the scales at just 1 440g bucking the notion that wider wheels have to.
Rims measuring 15 to 17mm across are the most common used for road bikes and accommodate tyres ranging in width from 23 to 50mm.