War wagon is born!

[kmccune]

can I put a 559x 2.5" tire on a rim that has a 1.95" installed?

 

[PedalUma]

Good question. It depends mostly on the width of the rim. Also if they are crocheted for wire bead or not, for folding and tubeless. What is your interior width on those rims? 2.5 is big, that's 63.6mm 1.95 is about 50mm. That equates to about 7mm on each side including the top. See if an 8mm Allen Key fits with wiggle room top, bottom, left and right through all the tight spots of the fork and rear triangle.

 

[Gordon71]

That sort of leads to another question. When looking at tires for a Rad Rover I searched 26X4 on Amazon. One of the choices was a Kenda 26X4.5. Now I don't know if that would work on the rim or not but it's a 1/2" wider than the stock tire. In first gear my chain is about 1/4" from the stock tire and I'm thinking that with a tire that's 1/2" wider then the chain would rub against the tire in first gear which wouldn't be a good thing.

 

[Art Deco]

Put "tires" in the title, please. Enough click bait titles already.

 

[kmccune]

Thank you, I guess I must pop the tire off the rim and see how much width I have, this is in place of a 3"x24, similar height, I just happen to have a new 500 watt DD front wheel I would like to add to the 'trike', it came with a "1.95x 26( 559 I guess), got in a bidding war and ended up with the powered wheel

Put "tires" in the title, please. Enough click bait titles already.

Thank you, it related to the trike directly.("Ask the community anything") sometimes a catchy title gathers more "Moss".

Lets see-" The "War Wagon" is born,I need some information pertaining to a Hub motor rim width to see if I can use a thinner close to same diameter tire and rim , because I do not want to have to buy another ,I do not want to buy another rim set that is 24"X3.0 SIZE!"
( Good enough title?) wait till you see the text.