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[pkovo]

Yesterday

 

[Patrick]

A few weeks ago, down da shawa 🏖️
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I was wondering if we'd get a pic of the wheel set!

wipe em with rain-x to keep the snow from sticking

 

[Sven Migot]

I was wondering if we'd get a pic of the wheel set!

wipe em with rain-x to keep the snow from sticking

I've got lots of pictures with these wheels. Mostly on Strava. They have been great. @Steve Vai is so jealous 😜
Thanks for the winter pro tip. When things get icy enough I swap the wheels for a set with studded tires.

 

[Steve Vai]

I've got lots of pictures with these wheels. Mostly on Strava. They have been great. @Steve Vai is so jealous 😜
Thanks for the winter pro tip. When things get icy enough I swap the wheels for a set with studded tires.

Super jealous. I wish I was slow enough to ride 1-pawl Chinese hubs 😂

 

[Sven Migot]

Super jealous. I wish I was slow enough to ride 1-pawl Chinese hubs 😂

#goals

 

[JonF]

Super jealous. I wish I was slow enough to ride 1-pawl Chinese hubs 😂

Well you can't have more pawls than spokes, so it seems fitting.

 

[JonF]

My new carbon hoops arrived, it only took 3 holidays to get here from the land of carbonium. Be warned this new "duty free shipping" gets around the T-word but at the cost of an extra fortnite or two of waiting for some reason. For 80mm 27.5's laced to DT350s, they come in at 2040g so i was pleased with that. Wish i could have found a suitable lightweight carbon XL frame with more modern geo but the Skookum AF does deliver on that, albeit a bit portly. The seat tube angle is a strangely little steep once the fork settles into sag and so i had to use a longer stem than normal to get my cockpit ergos dialed. Steep ST angles are good for full squish since both ends sag but this one stands you so damn upright when the 120mm fork sags, its very noticible. Anyways, where do i take it to break it in tomorrow?

 

[JonF]

Can anyone give me some tire pressure starting recommendations for different situations like typical hardpack trail (rock, root, dirt), hard snow/sand and lastly softer snow/sand? Me and bike are about 230# rtr and the tires are 27.5x4.5". Just ran it through the Wolftooth pressure calc and they recommend 2psi for snow/sand. 😆🤷‍♂️

 

[SmooveP]

Can anyone give me some tire pressure starting recommendations for different situations like typical hardpack trail (rock, root, dirt), hard snow/sand and lastly softer snow/sand? Me and bike are about 230# rtr and the tires are 27.5x4.5". Just ran it through the Wolftooth pressure calc and they recommend 2psi for snow/sand. 😆🤷‍♂️

5 or 6psi would be a good starting point. Go lower if the snow is deep-ish.

 

[scott62]

I was out in Emerson woods the other day on my old Boris, spent half the ride clearing all the dead falls on the trail

 

[JonF]

9 psi, way too high, rear end bouncing like a beach ball down the trail. 6 psi was better in rear but the front gets sluggish steering. Seems like fat bikes could be a case where you run higher psi in front than rear (if you are running a sus fork)?

 

[Steve Vai]

Fat Bike tire pressure is like riding a singlespeed, it’s always wrong 😂

 

[Teutonic]

I'm 135lbs and I settled on 4.5-5 psi on dirt and rock. Much lower in the snow.