Tyre logos???

[spence]

Finally got around to replacing the tyres on the road bike today. Now in the world of mountain bikes everyone knows that it's a heinous sin not to align tyre logos and the valve up precisely. And, as well as having everyone in the trail center carpark pointing and laughing, your bike will be unridable and you will crash and the first sign of a technical section.

Is this the same for those that ride the black stuff???

Just want to avoid any embasment.....

 

[HLaB]

If you cycle fast enough nobody will notice

 

[4F]

Finally got around to replacing the tyres on the road bike today. Now in the world of mountain bikes everyone knows that it's a heinous sin not to align tyre logos and the valve up precisely. And, as well as having everyone in the trail center carpark pointing and laughing, your bike will be unridable and you will crash and the first sign of a technical section.

Is this the same for those that ride the black stuff???

Just want to avoid any embasment.....

of course

 

[therams]

I just got my first road bike and the valves / logos were opposite to each other. I was quite surprised when I spotted it! Not sure if this is normal practice though?

 

[therams]

I take that back, the valves and the logos are aligned on the same side, but the stickers on the rims are on the other side. Again, no idea what is normal though

 

[spence]

Something I did think was; the rims have two logos (one covering the weld and another at the valve hole) as do the tyres (opposite each other on the carcase), so if I fitted the tyre with its logos at 90o to the rims logo that could look quite pretty........

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Yes, it's mandatory

 

[ianrauk]

Also to help locate any puncture or object that may still be in the tyre from the hole in the innertube

For a proper cyclist, the tyre pressure markings should line up with the valve.

 

[Cubist]

You need to be very careful. If the logo is printed on with ink or paint, the extra weight in this part of the tyre could have a disastrous effect on the wheel balance.

I should think most roadies will scrape the logo off to save weight, or a portion of it to offset the plastic they drill out of the dustcap.

 

[Randochap]

Those riding with logos in the forbidden manner will be shunned by the coven and hexed by the Witches of Polybutyl.

 

[youngoldbloke]

You need to be very careful. If the logo is printed on with ink or paint, the extra weight in this part of the tyre could have a disastrous effect on the wheel balance.

I should think most roadies will scrape the logo off to save weight, or a portion of it to offset the plastic they drill out of the dustcap.

Many a true word is spoken in jest - but if you are a high performance rider using top-end wheels this is obviously an important consideration -

Dynamic Balance™
Unlike carbon rims, all the aluminium rims are joined. The joint, though indispensable, entails a concentration of material in a single point and creates an annoying “jump” effect at speed. Fulcrum® has eliminated this annoying problem with the Dynamic Balance™ patent.

The concept is simple and elegant: balance the mass of the joint with a mass of the same weight. For top models, this is obtained by a special operation on the section of the rim opposite the rim joint. For entry-level models, Dynamic Balance™ is obtained by using two oversized spokes in the section opposite the joint. The result is a wheel with perfectly balanced rotational dynamics.

(quote from Fulcrum Wheels website)- so be careful how you position those logos .............

 

[andy_wrx]

So good of those engineering boffins at Campagnolo Fulcrum to have given me those two silver spokes to balance the wheel so perfectly.

Bit of a shame that I had to fit my speedo magnet...