What you see here in front of you is my wheel for my Kent Ridgeland bike. This is a 700 C type wheel and Right now it's fitted with some Michelin road tires, perfectly smooth tires 25 millimeters wide now. I'm actually wanting to turn that bike into a gravel Fixed gear bike in the future that video will be coming But I also don't want to spend a lot of money on tires looking at the gravel specific tires 45 millimeters wide 38 Whatever the very expensive 45 dollars sometimes even more. So I happen to be Walmart yesterday and I happen to see This now this does clearly say mountain bike tire 29 inch but from a little research I learned that 29 inch tire is going to fit a 700 C wheel They're both 622 millimeters for the actual rim diameter as I understand so this should mount on to this wheel No problem. However, the thing is is this wheel is only 20.8 millimeters wide on the inside dimension Where's this width for this tire is 2.1 inches? I've read varying things on whether you can fit such a wide tire on such a rim Some places say you should do only 1.6 to 2 times the width of the inside of the rim to the width of the tire Other places such as this chart do say that this rim being about 21 millimeters inside Should fit this tire no problem. So I Figured this would be a great opportunity to try we can all learn will a wide mountain bike tire 29 or mountain bike tire fit on a kind of a road rim You know, let's see and this is very cheap. This is $20 So this is about half the price as I was seeing most of the gravel specific tires go for now This is very wide 2.1 inches wide is about 53.3 millimeters wide So this is a very wide tire, but it only $20 I don't know Let's give it a try and I figured heck this is at Walmart if I take it out of the box nicely and I put it back in the box nicely If it doesn't fit I should be able to return it anyway So let's go ahead and take off this old road tire see if we can mount this mountain bike tire and See how it works. So it looks like we have 1.4 1.148 grams without the box All right, let's see if we can get this on the wheel It seems so big it seems too big just kind of like my first impressions thing seems really I Don't see how in the world. This is gonna go on All right, so it'll be kind of like that All right, I'm gonna fast forward this for your cut this out because it's probably really boring to watch We struggle to get this on the rim, but hey looks like it might be going kind of Let me go and pause it and wrestle with this a little bit come back and let you know how it goes So For sure online Okay, I finally got the tire on the wheel it took and embarrassingly long amount of time to get it on there My thumb hurts my forearm hurts a little bit. I don't know. That was really hard to get on But ultimately allowed me to have success and get it on was actually using tape the whole parts of it on While I was working on the other side Okay, it's looking like this might actually fit on this bike at least on the front There's not a ton of clearance, but there is clearance All right, it's not a ton of clearance, but there is clearance. I think it might be okay We'll see we'll know when I pump it up if there's really gonna be enough room or not Okay, and we're back. I swapped in a different tube The widest one I had which said it was only good for 38 millimeters, so we're still way bigger than that, but we'll see what happens All right, that looks pretty good about 30 psi But I'll show you what I'm kind of worried about let's get this set back up on the rack I mean, maybe it's okay you guys let me know what you think I'll look at that It's not a lot of clearance at all is it Is a pointer reference I can't even get my finger under there even my small finger So that's just Less than 10 millimeters for sure I think that's not not too good Now of course immediately what I think is oh well I can just grind that out, but Yeah, I don't know how safe that is either get grinded out up to Halfway up to the bottom of that hole Yeah, my fear is obviously the dirt and rocks and whatnot will just get jammed up in there especially rocks In terms of the tire fitting on the wheel though it actually don't look as bad as I thought it might I mean, yeah, it's bulging out it is It doesn't look that bad. I think that might be okay Okay, and you're probably wondering how the back would fit So I went ahead and went to the store and got a back tire too And it does fit about as well as the front one fits which is to say pretty uncomfortably snug But I just took the bike for a ride nothing rubbed or anything Obviously what I'd be worried about is any kind of Stone or something like that as you can see it's darn close Yeah, I can't quite fit my finger in there even up here. It's fine Plenty of space up here I mean it's not a ton, but I think it's okay up here The problem is more down here Kind of looks cool though overall But anyway, that's about it for this video. Thanks everybody for watching. See you next time You