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The front rim is a 36 hole Velocity Mountain Goat in the 25mm width and the rear rim is a 36 hole Sun Rhyno Lite in the 25mm width. When I first got the Schwalbes, I was running them at 40 psi and the ride on pavement was awful. The side wall on the tire says 80 psi max, so I tried that and the ride quality and speed was phenomenally better. I was told it was safe to run those tires at 80psi with the wider rim?
I found I don't have traction issues running them offroad at 40-30 psi, even on wet dirt.
I found I don't have traction issues running them offroad at 40-30 psi, even on wet dirt.
Honestly, you don't need rims as wide as you have. You don't really gain much from having rims that are an inch wide, which is really ooooold school. You are carrying around a lot of excess weight for no real gains.
That said, you shouldn't have problems with higher pressures. But then you shouldn't have a problems with any rim. 80 psi might be a bit high, especially if you are riding on unpaved or unimproved roads and trails but I regularly run 60 to 70 psi on 2" tires using rims that are around 17mm wide without problems.
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Stuart Black
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!