Not to fan the flames, but Patrick, have you heard the rumors of a 29x3"+ fatbike coming out of Surly? Seems like it could be just the bike for this kind of stuff. There's a couple of spy shots floating around somewhere....Maybe we'll see something at Interbike (september).
On Friday, June 15, 2012 1:09:50 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > 21 miles in the dirt today (haven't made it up to the Rio Rancho > sandhills) just east of the River and along the back side of Corrales, > which is a very interesting village combining old rural/farming, rural > slum, McMansion, ranchette and just plain weird. Four pavement miles, > 17 dirt miles, much of it sandy. > > > https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/CORRALESBOSQUEJUSTEASTOFCORRALESROAD061512# > > > I didn't re-inflate after my cussing attempt to measure t pressure > with my Topeak electric Chinese POS, but just rode -- 11 psi front, > 14.5 rear. This was fine and worked very well in the sand while only > causing minor sidewall flop in corners on pavement. A couple of the > photos below show my 29er tire footprint compared to the typical, > hard, narrow 2 inchers. > > I wish someone made a Flite with springs. The Flite on the Fargo is > very, very comfortable but when you ride over choppy, horse-churned > dirt the constant, jerking up-and-down is much worse (with my tires) > than washboard. > > -- > "Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you." > > Flannery O'Connor > > ------------------------- > Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA > For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW > http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > ------------------------- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/i1JoHMMi9_8J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
