A question on wheel purchase - lessons learnt

[silva]

There's some confusement around rim tape width.
My bicycles rim has a 22 mm inner width, and the dealer placed a 22 mm tape. Much time later when I had to replace the inner tube I noticed that the tape went from left to right around the circumference. I had to place a 25 mm tape to make it completely cover the inside. Why: because width figures are linear, while a rims shape is a curve, thus longer than the straigth distance.

 

[pawl]

I

Not been tempted to go out the back of Thurlaston to get a picture of 'Your Bike In Front Of A Ford' then

I haven’t been down that lane for some time.There was photo of someone washing his car in that ford ,It was taken during the drought when we had a hosepipe ban that prevented the washing of cars.