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Hello,
just looking at fat bike options. I have a Puffin mk1 and it has a 170mm rear spacing. Looking at getting some more wheels built up, but is the 170mm standard sort of dead? Is it worth investing in wheels or a different frame?
Cheers.
Hope make one. DT Swiss might still make one, not sure.
DT make one, yes. And Halo and Novatec, I think.
Plenty hubs available so I wouldn't worry. It's far from dead considering how many frames are out there using it.
Add Onyx racing products and Industry Nine to the list.
Hope fatsno is just their normal hub widened out, expect freehub and seal spares for a long time to come. Bearings are common sizes.
Great, that's good to know. I'm still on quick release for most of my bikes and that is a pretty dead standard on the cutting edge, but I guess it will be around for a while. Just get a bit paranoid every now and again, but if Hope do the stuff then they tend to support it for years, if not forever?
Thanks,
Sam
Given that you can still get parts for "standards" from the 1970s I wouldn't worry too much. If more than one manufacturer uses a sizing then there'll be third party parts around - Hope, Industry Nine, Chris King, etc.
I've a set of Industry Nine hubs on my Puffin Mk1, actually it might be one of the pre-production models, I bought it second hand from someone who I know had a PP frame but don't know if he swapped it for a production Mk1.
The only real limitation of the Mk1 frame that I can tell is that you are limited to 4.6" tyres (might be slightly out with this) and there aren't many between 4" and 4.8" so if you wanted 4.8" or 5" tyres you'd need a new frame. (I think the 45Nrth DunderBeist is the biggest I found that would fit) Not everyone needs tyres this big though.
Can the mk2 take bigger tyres? I realise there is a 29+ limit in the back of the mk1, but I like the short chainstays - a cm could be all the difference!
From the Singular site for the Mk2
- Frame clearance for 26×4.7" tyre on an 80mm rim
back in the olden days I had a 165mm spaced fat bike frame.
now there was a hub standard that was tough to get in QR - not impossible - but impossibly expensive. As above IIRC DT were one of the few.
ended up making my own hub spacers and axle system for another hub.
There are always options.
ive got a brand new unused halo hub (non xd) built onto a mulefut 80mm wheel that ive never used, it comes set up tubeless with a near new floater on it.
it was built £300 but never used, i have no fat bike stuff left.
Lester