Hi Patrick, Southern NM greetings to you! I'm afraid I don't have a way to measure the tires, but I'm running them on stock Rabbit Hole rims with the Gorilla Tape tubeless conversion (I think I read about it on Gypsy by Trade or While Out Wandering). I start to hit the rim at 6 in the front and 8 in the back, but I find that even 6.5 and 8.5 is pretty OK. I'm finding 7 and 9 to be pretty nice, and at 10 I start to feel like I'm riding a basketball. 1/2 PSI makes a big difference in the tires to me-- about like 2-3 psi in a standard MTB tire. If I'm riding by myself (casually) I go lower, if in a group and we're racing each other, a little more. I weight about 150 and I typically carry a 3L bladder w/ tools (10-15 lbs?) with me on my rambles (anything over 2 hours). The terrain is everything from 5-10 miles of pavement (to the trailhead) to sandy washes, rocky gnarly single track, to pine-duff. The tread is "pretty good" at everything, but I'd really like some more aggressive knobs for some of the tougher single track and piney stuff. I think the tires struggle in pine-duff the most, and really excel on slick rock. They are noticeably better than a regular MTB tire on sand, but I understand they are still not like a true fat-bike tire. I think they'd be an awesome Bosque tire, but they'll sound like a monster truck on the bike path. Tailwinds! Nils
On Sunday, April 20, 2014 4:05:28 PM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I still have 3 Furious Freds to wear out, but I do miss the up-to-65 mm > width of Big Apples and the as-low-as 12/16 psi pressures (the BAs had > sturdier sidewalls and contained tubes). Reviews of the Knard make it very > intriguing, and per my admittedly cursory measurements the Fargo has enough > room between fork legs and stays to accommodate the tire. > > Gypsy By Trade measures a used 3.0 Knard on a 50 mm rim at 77.1 mm which > is 3". Is this what you measure? How wide is your rim? > > Do you run it tubeless or with tubes? > > How low front and rear are you comfortable with and > = what is the total of your weight + weight of baggage carried? > = what terrain do you ride? > > The 44 mm wide SnoCat SLs should work very well with the Knard and give it > a nice, wide and flat profile (the FFs measure a true 55 mm on these rims; > they are labeled 50 mm). > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
