Hello Riv folk & Hunq tribe. Ant in Portland, here. Happy to say I'm the most excited owner of the custom paint jobb'd 62cm 2012 Waterford Hunq (AKA The Silver Fox) that the lovely Keith B posted FS a few months back. (The sideways picture in that post did that paint job so little justice!!!) The bike went through a standard baptism: brutal fenderless solo sunrise mud quest through Forest Park, rack install and a near immediate swapping and switching of bars, stem & tires.
The 50mm Schwalbe Duremes that came on the Hunq are wonderful tires & they are most appreciated additions via their new path in life on the Atlantis. So no surprise here, right? I wanna go bigger on the Hunqapillar. I threw on the biggest I had laying around, some 29 x 2.1 Kenda Small Block 8's. My caliper says 54mm at the widest knob diameter. (I was able to safely squeeze these onto my Atlantis, for the record.) There's some room to go bigger, of course and here's where you all can steer me in the right direction... "Gobs" of clearance when it comes to the fork and chainstays, but looking at the seat stays it seems like a 60mm/2.35" would be pushing it. I'm on the verge of buying the first set of For-The-Hunq tires and I'd very much appreciate the Good Word of thee Group. I'm looking at some Panaracer 2.2's but would love to max this baby out! Can i go bigger? What's the word? Do you Bombadil riders get more clearance or no? >From the design perspective: Probably ain't so easy to make much more clearance in the seat stay zone without doing something funky (ie bowed Atlantis chainstays), but my function/design question is this: why mega wide clearances at the fork & chainstays if the seat stay clearance is the ceiling at a mere (sarcasm) 59.5ishmm? Also- if anyone recalls the initial FS posting and thread for this bike, ( ---> HERE <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rbw-owners-bunch/waterford$20hunq/rbw-owners-bunch/vjPEda_VHYo/KREpRtBXre8J> <----) there was a mention by the now-previous owner of "larger tire clearance edition" which roused some questions in the group to little avail. Were early batches of Hunq's maxing out at a more narrow tire? It's no big deal but I admit I am a little confused by this claim. Any and all info greatly appreciated. OK. Enough. I'm gonna go ride now, I swear. -- 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.
