04-21-2004, 09:53 AM
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Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@sfu.ca> wrote:
> In article <c65s4r$kgt$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>,
> VS <vsinkko@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> The factory-install tires of my trusty 12-year-old MTB are in their dying
>> days, so I decided to replace them. Upon arriving back at home with the
>> new tires I noticed that there's a text printed in their side: "to fit
>> HB-575 rim".
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>> So, what's the significance of that? What is a HB-575 rim? Did I buy a set of
>> tires that require some special kind of rims --- rims my old bike probably
>> doesn't have?
> Never heard of it, and it's probably nothing.
> Look on the sidewall for the size. You should be able to see something
> like 50-559 (this would designate an MTB tire with a nominal width of 50
> mm, aka 26 x 2.0), and another number that's somewhere between 26 x 1.5
> and 26 x 2.5 (might be wider, but I bet you couldn't fit it into a
> 12-year-old MTB frame if it was).
Yeah, they're 47-559. I know the regular things about tire sizing and
wheels -- I was merely worried that some company might've come up with a wheel
design that's incompatible with regular older stuff... it's so typical of
modern companies to actually do something like that in search of market
domination, you know.  Thanks for the reply.
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