[quote=akasnowmaaan][quote=Rusty Piton]I was thinking, should I get a 650+ wheelset for my Fatboy?
Would a 27.5x3" tire work well to replace 26x5" tire for to ride the thing in conditions where 5" tires are just extreme, ridiculous overkill?[/quote]
If you want the same BB height and lack of pedal strikes, if the bike is designed around a 5" tire, get a 29+ wheelset. And Chupacabras.
just what in the fuck is wrong with having a wheel be the fucking ISO?! And then throwing in a tire size to specify what you got on it. What the fuck does 26+ or 27+ mean. Just say, “selling a 584x40 wheelset.” and then whatever tire size is on there. fucking 700’s are actually 622s. 26 is roughly the tire size unless it’s 26+ and then there’s no 26 to be had anywhere in the fucking equation. Oh it’s fat? don’t ya mean 700/29r/29+/go fuck yourself
Seems unbeatable at the moment, I’ll probably upgrade instead of buying chainrings.
As for 10 vs 11 speed, I’ll be buying new Force 22 hydraulic brakes and levers, so I should conceivably be able to choose between 10 and 11. But yeah, it looks as though there’s no large difference in price between the two. Think I’ll need 11-36 or should 11-32 be fine?
Ahh, it’s on the chain page, but not on their pop-up link from the 5800 page. Anyway, that’s interesting and I wonder what the difference is now between 105 and Ultegra. Did they start using Duralumin on Ultegra?
Never broken a quick link. Fucked up a few Shimano pins out of stupidity.
I do like quick links for the few times I’ve broken another drive train component and needed to run chainless the rest of the “ride” and forgotten to bring a chain tool in my pack.
[quote=akasnowmaaan][quote=Rusty Piton]I was thinking, should I get a 650+ wheelset for my Fatboy?
Would a 27.5x3" tire work well to replace 26x5" tire for to ride the thing in conditions where 5" tires are just extreme, ridiculous overkill?[/quote]
If you want the same BB height and lack of pedal strikes, if the bike is designed around a 5" tire, get a 29+ wheelset. And Chupacabras.
Yeah Patch, I was just looking at the screenshot you sent me, and it’s for a 46/36. I presume the price is low because FSA is blowing them out, 'cuz they suck and are planning on selling lots more subcompacts.
[quote=blackholelectron]man I have been looking for something like this for SO LONG
might switch up my plans for the Wednesday to 29 plus instead of 27.5 now to avoid dropping the bb… but that might actually be nice. hmmm[/quote]
The 27.5+/29er thing isn’t quite right, in theory they should be alike but 27.5+ is ~3/4" shorter than 29er the way it shook out… it seems the tires came out a bit smaller in practice and have less firm sidewalls so they sag almost down to regular 27.5 x 2.4 tire sizes. Also, 2.8 are the best for shredding, and the 3.0-3.25 are kinda fatbike-bouncy, so 2.8’s are winning out and they’re on the small side. (Ibis published a bit screen on this for their Mojo3 release.) It’s enough that companies like Santa Cruz and Pivot explicitly build that hight discrepancy into their bikes, with either a shock adjustment (SC Hightower) or adding a 17mm shim under the headset (Pivot Switchblade).
But, on the fat side, I can say personally that the 29+/5" fat match is bang on.
And nobody gives a shit about 26+ except Surly.
And this chart doesn’t show that a 4" fat tired bike is really close to a 27.5+ bike - a much better match than 29er, really. Lots of people on Bucksaws throw 27.5+ wheel sets on in the summer.
