Cycling question for the lazyweb

[thiebes]

I need better tires on my bike. I'm a little confused about the measurements on the existing tires, which reads:

28-622 (700 x 28c - 28 x 15/8 x 11/8I get the ISO and metric numbers, but the English seems to have too many measurements, and I'm not sure which of these three measurement systems I should use, or if I need more information than this

Comments

[jbarros]

If you're going into a bike shop, the only part they need is the 700x28c 700c being the size of your wheel, and 28mm being the width. You can chose to move up (depending on brake and fork clearance) to possibly as large as 35mm if you wanted a cushier ride, which would be lower preasure, and slow you down a bit, or quite possibly down to 25mm 120+psi race tires, which will be noticably stiffer, but give you less rolling resistance.

I run conti's on my bike and could not be happier, but I'm just a commuter. FWIW, I'm running 28's which are the compromise size for a commuting/touring bike.

For more information about bicycle tires than you ever needed, check out Sheldon Brown's Site

Hope that helps :)

-- James

[thomasrhymer]

Ditto to what he said. But as to the 3 measurements - I would guess total diameter of the tire, width from side to side, width/thickness from inside edge to outside edge.