> Quoth Pete Biggs:
> >>But there's a limiting factor before that. You need to be able to
remove
> >>the wheels without too much hassle. Campag brakes have the quick
release
> >>in the lever, not the calipers, and this doesn't open the brakes very much, unfortunately. If
> >>one likes the pads close to rims, opening q/r plus turning cable barrel adjuster a few turns
> >>provides only just enough clearance to remove an inflated 25mm tyre, IME. 28's might be ok at a
> >>push. I would not even bother trying to use Campag calipers for
anything
> >>wider.
> Antti Salonen wrote:
> > I've used tyres which actually measure about 24 mm, and they rub both brake pads when you
> > release the brake and remove the wheel. 25 mm is probably OK, depending on how close to the rim
> > you have set the brake pads, but 28 mm would almost certainly require deflation.
"Sheldon Brown" <
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> It isn't just a matter of the tyre width, but also the width of the rym, more specifically, the
> difference betwixt the twain.
>
> This is one of the reasons I like mixing the two systems. If you have Campagnolo brake levers and
> Shimano calipers, you have _two_ quick releases, which, when used together, give you enough quick
> releasitude to handle touring tyres on narrow ryms.
>
> > Of course, for many people this might not be a problem. After all, at home most people have a
> > good floor pump and at road the tyre is probably empty if you want to remove the wheel.
>
> Hard for some folks to realize that quick-release brakes were virtually unknown until the 1970s,
> even though most cyclists back then rode rather wider tyres than are currently fashionable.
Really? In the sixties, quick-connect Mafac transverse wires were de rigeur for sport bikes. Of
course that give a disconnect, not a slack, so I do see your point.
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