[Closed] 3/4 fat progress

Yowzer! whatever bike that is going on is going to be a laugh!!

that does sound scary

i thought my cross lacing on my fat wheels was bad !

Scary how TR?

32 into 36 in a rim like that 😀

nice even tension 😉

whats that weigh ?

worked out my wheels on my fat bike weigh 12lbs all in !

3.4kg = 7.6lb and that's with a "lightweight" 3" tube 😮 I'll lose a whole .75lb drilling too 😎

Agreed re. lacing - I'll do the next one with 4 x 1 spoke gaps rather than 2 x 2. Like I said this is going on the front. Longer term I'll re-drill to 32H if I go full fat, just need to work out what that might be (Pug most likely).

Nearly there 🙂

I find the best way to true these fat rims is to get them as true as possible with the spokes slack, and then wind in the nipples evenly. Trying to pull them into line is otherwise nearly impossible.

Ta epi...I got them down to say +/- 1.5mm, I'll try that tonight.

Found the same with my arctic cycle 100s were actually. ****s to build - like you say nearly impossible to true!

hope it pedals easier than this barsteward did yesterday in the mud 😉
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Hopefully a bit FS - it'll be low-geared to make most of the traction/provide an easy life!

i left mine at 32/18 as the circumference was slightly smaller on these than on my 29er but it was still tough going in the sticky mud sections

ive got 34:22 on my sandman .... want it lower for snow i think - 28:22 maybe 😀 (i have a 110mm chainset)

Well built up a second wheel, went a lot better using proper nipples and stouter spokes as well as a better lacing pattern. Only 3-4mm clearance at chainstays so not convinced it will work!

Mummy and Daddy fat wheels:

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Mick - half fat might be shit in mud but we had all sorts ofmud tonight and nearly all the group were convinced of my floating when I rode over a section and David tried to follow me and sunk into his hubs - stopping !

Also bike in water just about floats vertically - certainly not much drag even on fire roads either at 30 psi - wAs keeping up nae bother on 34:22

Grip on loAmy off camber was second to none I'm not even conviced my dh bike woulda been as fAst and grippy

Heh maybe I should use mine at the weekend Enduro

wooh hooh spoke to my frame builder and he's going to crimp my stays for the tyre 😀

*puts chainsay into vice tightens and wacks with a hammer* 😆

Terry it was very good on fireroads and in very wet mud but it was the sticky clay type I struggled on , which was most the ride lol oh and the five mile road section home wasn't great . I was only running 12psi up front and 14 rear so may up the pressure a bit and see how that goes

One thing I did notice is it was a lot smoother than my cx as I did the same route the day after on that I had to pick lines and everything rather than tractor thru 😉

I wouldn't be surprised if the proper fat tyres roll lighter tho

Btw al that rear rim looks wider than the tyre. Did it increase the width much putting it on a wide rim

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thats a larry on 100mm rim for anyone who cares 😉 - the 100mm rim does sit proud and i have managed to blow the tire off the rim once - rollin daryls might be a good investment for me for summer wheels 😉

PP - yeah the tyre is not as wide as the rim, but only just. Otherwise I only have a 40mm rim (65-70 might have been perfect) but I've not put the Gaz on that yet - hopefully I won't have to rebuild. From my 2.4 tyre measurements I expect the 80mm rim will have added a few mm to the tyre.

singlespeedstu - Member
*puts chainsay into vice tightens and wacks with a hammer*

It's getting squeezed in a vice that's for sure!

LOLs at the fatbike-enthusiasm just now, it's the latest winter-mid-life-crisis activity!

;o)

You noes it!

I fully accept that for me it's mid-life crisis (ongoing for 4+ years since I got the MX5) and winter & post-break-up blues.

No shame in that!

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oof you got it bad. :o)

Tell me about it.

I'm lusting after a Lotus!

nah my quarterlife crisis has definantly been the land rover !

Nice trousers there Terry.

I see a patern forming hear.

Man wants Lotus but buys MX5.
Man wants fatbike but tries to bodge big tyres into skinny frame.

You forgot the internet-argung 😎

I didn't know you were into that. 😆

"Nice [s]trousers[/s] Nomex quilted north sea boiler suit there Terry."

Sounds "hot". 😉

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well gave it a spin on the beach. A few points.

The tyres make a great sound on Tarmac
they consume a great deal of energy in doing so
the endo self steers to a scary degree (could be pressure or slack head angle)

seems fun but it will need gears!

seems fun but it will need gears!

Or mans legs. 😉

Pfffft.

Any trail, any time, anywhere 😉

...just not any bike... 🙂

That looks good Al 😮

I'm up for east coast fat-spins, Bruce.

Can't believe how fat the Gazza looks on that rim!

the endo self steers to a scary degree

Did your man manage to splay as well as flatten the stays? Looks widened enough to have needed some jiggery pokery with the hanger on the inside?

That's actually damn near full fat - nice work fella 🙂

nice 😉

Al,

I love the Gazza on that set-up.

It was too much on my DH-lite bike and was very hard work on the front wheel...killed my legs.

PaulD

what's with the ropey seatpost?

Got the stays crimped by the builder today, won't get to play with it till Monday or later. Am pretty pleased with it but I accept it's not full fat and the biggest difference may be the last 1/4

GW - Thudbuster, not ropey 😡

I knew what brand it was thanks 😕 but have no idea why you'd want to fit one of them on a beach bike, CKs Brooks saddle makes sense

What is the make is the frame?

GW are you the new TJ?

It's a Shand.

I'm just hungover to ****

I dont think GW's the new TJ.

I just think he likes posting on threads about stuff he says he doesn't like but secretly he'd like to try out for himself. 😉

Hes had a couple of shots of my pug... and said hes keen to try and pop the tyres off the rim but told i him its 100 pumps of a Mountain morph pump to inflate to 8 psi 😆

You'd have to go some to pop a Larry of a LM rim at 8 psi.

I recon I could just about do it on a GFS rim with the tyre at 4psi though.
That tyre and rim combo is slacker than the winner of the slackers contest at a singlespeed event. 😆

popped a larry off my arctic cycles rim at 20 psi ! slack slack slack

LM's being bouble walls are quite tight though.

TBH I think most singlewall rims are slacker than tollah's ass.

i found this 😮

Stu - What's your problem? They're not really ever going to be my thing but show me where I have said I don't like fat bikes? I'm genuinely puzzled by Al's bizarre seatpost choice.
I've rolled my fair share of DH tyre beads off DH rims at pretty high pressures, a (much lighter) mate rolled a front intense 2.7 DH comp 50(the old heavy ones that weren't far off the size of a 3" Gazza) clean off a D321 at abt 30psi right in front of me on a DH run (corner after the stepdown on Dropzone at inners if you know it) he was v.luck to get away with it un scathed. I'd really like to try and roll a tyre off CKs Pug but I reckon it might need taking somewhere it'd be fairly pointless otherwise.

I'm genuinely puzzled by Al's bizarre seatpost choice.

I was under the impression he was building it as a beach bike, I'm local to him and don't think I'd want my saddle swaying around 3" riding our local coastline. hopefully he'll confirm why he has chosen to fit it.

I can confirm....

1. Like many things...I don't take the set up of my bikes that seriously.
2. I had the TB on that frame as a 130mm forked hardtail.
3. I don't see how it could be a set back on the trails in question
4. I'm not looking for the last 1% performance on every ride.

GW you are TJ and I claim my £500,000,000,000.

GW.

Stop taking things so seriuosly.

Did you not see the 😉

These bikes aren't about performance. They're about bringing a big smile to your face just bimbling around on them. 8)

I've arranged to collect an old Nexus 7s hub from a mate FOC...should solve any chainline issues...briefly...before it explodes!

"They're about bringing a big smile to your face just bimbling around on them. "

they do that well ...

Ahh booh the hub has a coaster brake and you need to freewheel to change gear.

Former can be bodged to disc, latter a PITA, and I would need to bodge a shifter too 🙁

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Off for a proper ride later. 18 speed, most of them work, average one question and 27 looks per mile.

MTFU and go brakeless!

nice 😉 how much did you pay for the forks al

£45 off Woody- bit of an oddity though...130mm and not wanting to be cold set!

how bizare, nice price tho 😉

Well I took her up the Pentlands to try on some steep loose stuff on Allermuir ridge.

Heaps of traction however rider fitness and technique coupled with a howling gale meant I didn't clean the tricky sections. 67 deg seat angle did not help either.

Fun though... I suspect it will fall well short of full fat in snow and sand but I'll give it a go.

*calling coastkid*

fanny! 😛

LOLing at the hairdressers car in your pic there al.

How dare you insult my Eunos.

GW fanny for a particular reason or just a generic comment?

a whole list of reasons 😉

These bikes seem worth the effort just for how cartoon-like they look.

And they look like they might float, which is cool.

stevious - Member

These bikes seem worth the effort just for how cartoon-like they look.

Mine still makes me laugh every time i look at it.

So wrong yet so right.

A bloke in the burg imported a 907 in alu with a carbon fork and is looking to shift it as it's too big for him...I am tempted...I like my charlie though.

I think you should keep eyour drug talk off forum al 😉

the joke was surely for stu's benefit.

But I don't know anyone called charlie. 😉