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Cycling noob here - help me understand tires and wheels so I can swap mine around (lemmy.world)
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I recently got my first road/endurance bike, a Felt VR60. According to the specs, the wheels it came with are: Devox WheelRDS.A3, Tubeless ready, 6-hole, 12x100/12x142 mm. Default tires it came with are Vittoria Zaffira V tires.

I'm thinking of doing some light gravel riding with this bike, so was considering some 30mm tires to swap between depending on the activity I want to do. However, I have no idea what I should be looking for when it comes to buying new tires/tubes.

  1. What factors do I need to worry about when buying new tires? I assume the wheel size matters, right?

  2. Can I reuse my existing tubes, or do I need new ones?

  3. Searching for 30mm gravel tires, I mostly found tubeless options. Is there a reason for that?

  4. Anything else I should know before buying and swapping tires?

Any help is greatly appreciated here :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This chart from sheldon brown helped me with size selection before: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html

I've taken non-gravel and converted them to gravel no problem, i still use one today for bikepacking.