How skinny can I go?

garrynolan

Hiyas, I have 26x2.5 knobblies - how skinny can I go to put road tyres on? Would 26x1.5 be OK? Ta very much. G.

jacob2910

depends completely on the rim

kenan

I would not go to skinny myself as I didn't like how harsh the smaller road tyres were on the bike.

garrynolan

jacob2910 wrote:

depends completely on the rim

Hi, what do you mean? Ta. G.

cooldad

You have wide tyres, presumably your rims are fairly wide as well. Skinny tyres on fat rims won't work.

cavegiant

A good question is why you want skinny tyres.

With my bike I run either knobblies or slicks, the size on both is about 2.4".

Schwalbe Big Apples.

Very fast tyre,

It also has another major advantage in that you can still ride your bike like an MTB, so hucking flights of stairs, smashing into curbs at 20mph and riding walls is all good.


p.s. the wall riding is speculation, my skills arnt there yet =-)

garrynolan

OK - maybe 'skinnier' tyres is a more accurate description of what I'm looking for. Just need something more suitable for the road as the bike will be ridden by my 15 year old niece and definitely won't be offroad.

nicklouse

and the rims are?

you can go down to 1" on some rims.

cavegiant

Am still thinking that the big apples are worth considering, they are a cruiser tyre.

but yeah, we need to know the rim, or more specifically the internal gap size.