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Designated wheel sizes are not actual wheel sizes
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With cars and motorcycles, the wheel size stated is the actual wheel size.

With bicycles, the number given for the wheel size, is not the actual wheel size.

They have just brought in new wheel sizes, the 27.5 and the 29 inch. This was a good opportunity to name the wheel size the actual wheel size.

27.5 would be 23 inches if it was a car or motorcycle.

29 would be 24.5 inches if it was a car or motorcycle.

It would take some time for people to get used to it, but every new wheel size after that could then be named correctly.

But they started with wrong numbers, and just continue with wrong numbers.
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