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A Potted Plant

Honorary Sod
Finished up putting back the Talon to a flat bar bike and took it out for a test run. Did a very short trail ride and this rigid thing is rough... where do you guys ride your rigid bikes other than Allaire and 6MR? Keeping in mind this is a skinny 27.5 bike. To be fair... the tires were pumped up to 40-45 psi from its Fredkenstein days.

What my old fork? Take me out to kbbq
 

JerseyPete

Well-Known Member
Did you feel that you were getting more power to the dirt and more confidence without fork dive?
When are you going fully rigid and single speed?
 

Paul H

Fearless OOS Poser
Did you feel that you were getting more power to the dirt and more confidence without fork dive?
When are you going fully rigid and single speed?
SS? Maybe in 20 years. Trying to make the Talon a 2x lol
It goes... its pretty light without the suspension fork.

i've run rigid ss at cr not horrible.
sounds like you are overfilled with air by 2x.
Yep... will get the psi down when it goes on a real trail ride. Maybe I should goof off with it at HM.... but I might die.
 

Paul H

Fearless OOS Poser
2.25 NN and just dropped down the psi to 28/30 and it feels better... but I think I understand why guys go rigid and SS.
You don't want to be sitting on the saddle on a rigid!
 

thegock

Well-Known Member
2.25 NN and just dropped down the psi to 28/30 and it feels better...

Now drop 10lbs in each tire ( tubeless).

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Paul H

Fearless OOS Poser
I weighed 187 today. Had 3"/2.8" tires in the picture above and ran 14# on each.
I run 18/20 on my 650b 2.6 and 20/22 on my 29er 2.4 and both are NN Addix.
But that 650b 2.25 NN Performance... I'll try 25psi tomorrow and see how they feel.
 
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