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Rode my Whyte 909 around Coed-y-Brenin last weekend. What a bike! Goes downhill at least as well as the Spesh Camber Evo (with pikes) that it replaced. The only issue I have had with it is 2 pinch flats on the rear tyre in 2 rides (despite pretty high pressure in the rear tyre).
Wondering buying a fatter tyre and running it tubeless, or just sticking with the stock tyre and getting rid of the tubes. Worried that if I keep the tyre I will ruin my rims if I run a low enough pressure to have any grip?
And is it weird and wrong to have a fatter tyre in the rear than at the front? You don't see that very often...
Perhaps you need to review the tyre pressure in the back? My simple test is putting the tyre against a kerb and seeing if I can bottom the rim out onto it. If I can then its too soft.
so you've gone from a FS to a HT .. if you're bashing the rear wheel on stuff lke you could get away with on the FS its no wonder?
is your yearning for a bigger tyre on the back because you're missing the squish?
bigyinn - yeah, according to that test my tyre was not too soft.
canopy - perhaps I am missing the squish a little, but I think I'm more missing the grip from being able to run lower tyre pressures. Perhaps I'm riding like a thug, and need to gain some finesse?
you'd know best 🙂 it crossed my mind as part of the reason i went FS was because on my HT i was putting some scary hits through the back wheel when i'd made dodgy line choices to get myself out of trouble 🙂
Yeah, I actually bought this bike to complement my full suss, but then my FS got nicked, and I really think the Whyte can do pretty much everything my FS could do, just with a sorer arse.