100 miles of gravel & dirt in the cold and damp on singlespeeds? How can this not be a cakewalk?
I dunno man, cakewalks fuckin suck.
Having ridden that tire and the 26 inch variant, in a spirited nature-way, my gut feeling is that the 26er is faster. Have not ridden them in slippy mud tho.
I want to know more about this bike and race
TC Zi think the only reason I donāt like these swift tires is that they have tread, and I have always viewed significant tread on an urban bike to be the mark of a True Noobā¢ļø and Iām embarrassed to ride a bike with heavily treaded tires.
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You could always Weigle them and shave the tread off?
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TL;DR the man behind the Trans-Iowa decided to hold a single-speed century in beautiful death-by-rollers Iowa in late March. It was cold, wet, and 100 miles of thick sticky clay. 76 starters, 10 finishers.
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I know the dude with the big beard. Cool guy.
Midwesterners
They love walking their bikes and they love driving 8+ hours to do so
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DID FAT BIKE FINISH?!
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I think all the time and sanding belts would more than make up the difference between a $20 tire and a nice tire that fits the need in the first place
Finished at #4, apparently.
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Possibly? The only pictures Iāve seen of the process are Peter Weigle with a filter mask & some giant bladed plane thing, so if heās chucking the tire into something suitably spinny and leaning in with a plane itās just a matter of the time (and the whole time == money thing is silly unless youāve got a patron who will only pay you if you donāt do the thing.)
pretty sure i rode with him for a while at gravel worlds last year. of course, there were a bunch of large grey beards so itās hard to be sure
as a former nebraskan i feel extremely seen
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Yeah but time = time and I can think of way better things to do than shave down a tire
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I bought an automotive tire shaver a year or two ago. Still havenāt used it. Seems like it would involve some kind of jig and a truing stand or spare fork in a vise. I got it to shave knobs off the best 650b tire ever made, the Thunder Burtāthen I realized side knobs are pretty sweet.
YOU MONSTER!
(Those knobs do wear pretty quick though, but less so compared to the center tread)
Arenāt you at all curious to see how it would work and what the resulting tire would ride like? I am (but I donāt have a shopspace, the machinery needed to set up a wheel on a big old spindle so I can start shaving, or anything other than a rolling partsbin Bianchi thing thatās got my 26" wheelset mounted on it, so ugh I need to win the lottery.)
Iāve not seen that picture; I presume heās got the wheel set up to underrun, so the pressure of the sanding strip will force the wheel it down into the jig?