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Bits for new wheels with wider rims (24mm vs. 17mm internal width). With the current wheels I've found the rear in particular gets too squirmy when close to 2 bars, and I've had good experiences with similar tyre widths on wider rims.
The rims are Ambrosio AK30's, 600 grams a piece, so weight increase per rim is closer to 200g. Still, not a huge amount of choice for wide & rim brake, and these were among the lightest I could find. I did consider using single wall trial bike front rims, some of which are under 500g for 30mm+ width.
Weird surprise with one rim: all eyelets were missing. I would have though mfg QC or the shop should have spotted that.
I've been tempted to try the Compass Rat Trap Pass tyres, but I think with 55mm width rear clearances would be impractically tight.
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