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How to calculate radius of wheel (including tire)

trip
Framebuilder
By trip | 8:27 PM EST, Sat November 19, 2011
BikeCAD How To Forum

Is there a way to calculate radius of a wheel? It probably not in BikeCAD, but something to consider when designing fork / chainstay length and shape. For ex: if I know I am designing around a 650b rim and tire, how do I calculate the radius?

Brent
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Ottawa, ON Canada

Brent

14 years 5 months ago

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Determining wheel radius

I assume that radius = diameter / 2 is not the answer you are looking for.

There is some info on tire sizes here. That page discourages the notion that tire diameter or radius is something that can be calculated based on the nominal size of a given tire.

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trip
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trip

14 years 5 months ago

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In reply to Determining wheel radius by Brent

The drop-down box in the link

The drop-down box in the link you posted to doesn't work. I am guessing that the drop-down box is used to show different diameter or radius of different tires?

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Brent
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Brent

14 years 5 months ago

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In reply to The drop-down box in the link by trip

Standard wheel sizes

Currently, if you use the Quick Start menu to launch BikeCAD, BikeCAD will load without any standard wheel sizes. This was done to make BikeCAD load as quickly as possible for those who have trouble with Java quitting before the applet can fully load. To access the standard wheel sizes, try launching BikeCAD through the other options described here.

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