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20" road tires?

BentHammer

Chimp
Dec 30, 2005
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Are high-pressure tires and tubes available for 20" wheels? I rode a mountain bike over the road for a few years with one and it helped my 'milage' considerably.

Thank you.
 

sanjuro

Tube Smuggler
Sep 13, 2004
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Well, there are a lot of Junior tires (and tubulars), but they might not fit a BMX wheel.

I am not sure you would enjoy training on a BMX bike. One key to training is long steady distance at a moderate pace, something which you cannot do while pedalling standing up.
 

BentHammer

Chimp
Dec 30, 2005
15
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Thank you- they're actually going on the front of a tadpole trike that I am building. So I will have gearing in my favour and I'll be lying down, not standing :)
 

Changleen

Paranoid Member
Jan 9, 2004
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Yeah, there are a lot of near slick BMX tyres on the market, unfortuantly these days many are quite big and fat, and those thin ones you get for racing which are thin are often knobbly.

You might want to look out for an old (90s) tyre called an ACS RL Edge. Those were thin and light and very slick indeed. They also happily took about 120psi.