| Re: Rim brake heat and clincher blowoff, was Re: Potential goodnews for Mt. Washington access.
Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@mousepotato.com> writes:
> Spoke tension will restrain the diameter increase. The width increase
> will be only a few thousandths of an inch.
I agree with all of your comments except for this one. The force
required to prevent the wheel from expanding are much larger than the
spokes can apply. In any case, with a coefficient of thermal expansion
somewhere in the neighborhood of 2x10-5 per kelvin, a 622mm rim is
only going to expand a fraction of a millimeter.
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