One thing I have found useful during my fat tire experiments is to use Sheldons gear calculator for gain ratios to keep the playing field equal. Helps to keep you from blowing a gasket during the transition to running fat tires. For example cruising gear on my:
Eisentraut - 53:28 w/ 28mm RoughyToughy Roadeo - 50:18 w/ 33mm Jack Browns Rawland - 44:16 w/ 42mm Marathon XR The gain ration is pretty close in all cases. Just food for thought Also, the big apple rock, I have them on our tandem Rob On Mar 18, 10:57 am, Michael_S <mikeybi...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > I've been toying with the idea of getting the 700x 50's for my > Hillborne. I think they would fit without fenders. I have 40mm Smart > Sams on it now and there is an easy cm on each side of the rear tire > to the chainstay. > ....and living in SoCal, fenders are not needed most of the year. > > ~Mike~ > > On Mar 18, 10:31 am, Esteban <proto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I love the idea of a very fat tired road bike. Fun! I wish there was > > a big apple in 650B. > > > If only this fellow could have fit fenders in there, as it rained > > rather hard for the whole event here in San Diego. I heard stories > > from friends that moments into the ride, MCRB riders were dropping out > > like flies because of the conditions (rain!) and that people riding in > > peletons had mouthfuls of road grime. > > > Esteban > > San Diego, Calif. > > > On Mar 18, 10:26 am, "Jim M." <mather...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That's a Ritchey Carbon Mountain Fork -- you can see the disc brake > > > mounts. That's why it can handle the fat tires. Everyone knows that's > > > a 26" MTB frame and not a road frame, right? > > > > jim m > > > wc ca > > > > On Mar 18, 10:18 am, Bill Connell <bconn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jeremy Till <jeremy.t...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > Seems like the MC/ARB crowd is starting to get the "fat tires on the > > > > > road" thing, albeit in a bit more "extreme" way: > > > > > >http://redkiteprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0876.jpg > > > > >http://redkiteprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0877.jpg > > > > > > Makes a jack brown look like a wispy track tire. > > > > > > (from RKP's Grand Fondo Colnago report...guess the guy was a belgian > > > > > who had flown in for the event. Come to think of it, that bike would > > > > > be awesome for rocking some flandrian cobblestones) > > > > > Those tires look great. Impressive that the carbon fork he's using can > > > > handle those wide tires, but i can only imagine the road spray those > > > > things would throw up. A ride like that calls for fenders! > > > > > -- > > > > Bill Connell > > > > St. Paul, MN- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
