Patent ID: 9463666
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: B60B,B60Y,Y02T

Claim Text:
1. An aerodynamic bicycle rim comprising: a circumferential tire mounting surface on a radially outer side of the bicycle rim forming a tire bed to seat a tire; and a set of sidewalls, each sidewall extending radially from a nose of the bicycle rim to a corresponding transition to the circumferential tire mounting surface to form a bicycle rim body having a maximum rim body width at a portion of the rim body that overlaps the tire bed, the maximum rim body width greater than a maximum width of the tire; wherein, the bicycle rim is operable to seat the tire so that the cross-sectional shape of the tire and rim body is asymmetrical about the widest portion of the cross-sectional shape and there is a tangent line tangent to the tire and tangent to a sidewall of the bicycle rim radially inward from a radially outermost edge of the rim body having a tangent angle of 8-17 degrees, wherein the rim is configured such that a wheel formed by the rim and tire has a stall angle of 10-19.5 degrees when the tire is seated.