Wheels

Posted on Sat 14th, February 2009

• #1

heasman

I have an old raleigh frame which has 26 inch wheels, i wanna make it single speed and was wondering if 700cc wheels will fit? to big? to small?

cheers
• #2

Greasy_Slag

They will fit
• #3

Getafix

Look at this.

700c are slightly bigger they might fit depending on how slack the frame geometry is.
• #4

heasman

sweet jus the news i was after. cheers
• #5

randombadger69

If theyre 26 x 1 3/8 your talking a bead-seat diameter of 590mm, if it's 1 1/4 section it'll be a bead-seat diameter of 597mm, which if you take into account the tyre section, should add up to similar overall section as a 700c (622mm) with a 20-30mm section.
• #6

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of course if they don't, depending on the out come of the titanium frame issues, I might have some fixed 650c wheels going.
• #7

starfish&coffee

might seem an obvioius point, but consider the width of the wheels as well.
frame ought to be 100mm front and 120 mm rear, saves you blundering around like I did a while ago. (newbie mistake that was)

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