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Just bought a wire bead gatorskin and put it on the rear wheel and it looks like it has a much smaller width (diameter?) than the folding gatorskin I have on the front. Both are supposed to be 23mm, but the wire bead looks much narrower/smaller. It almost looks like it's changing the geometry of the bike (lowering the rear end/raising the front). Searched on google but can't find any reference to them being different in size. Is this something anyone's heard of?