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mansonsoul - Member

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on a 'blat-around-town' bike. I was looking at getting a Cotic Roadrat, to run it with disk brakes, nice fat comfy tires and full mudguards. However, I want to run an alfine, and would like to build it up to a 26" mtb rim so that I could also use it on my mountain bike, which is a SS, if I ever want to have gears.

Has anyone tried a Roadrat with 26" wheels? I measured a 700c wheel with 42mm tires and the diameter was 70cm. My mtb with 26" wheel and 2.25" tires came to 67cm. Would there be clearance for 26" guards and say 2.0" tires?

Posted 2 years ago #
mansonsoul - Member

Anyone?

Posted 2 years ago #
happysnapper - Member

Give Cy or Paul at Cotic a ring. I'm sure they'd discuss it with you and give you an opinion.

Posted 2 years ago #
mansonsoul - Member

I was hoping maybe someone would have tried it already. Maybe not.

Posted 2 years ago #
Tiboy - Member

Hiya, I run mine with 26 inch wheels, very nippy round town, really fun to ride. Clearance wise it'll be fine with 2.0 tires, mine's got 1.3's on it and there's tonnes of room inside the 26inch mudguards. I'd love to have an alfine, but SS is great!

Posted 2 years ago #
mansonsoul - Member

Hi Tiboy, thanks for that! Did you have any problems setting it up, as far as mudguard mounting points being in the wrong place for 26" wheels or anything like that?
Do you have any photos of your setup too?

Posted 2 years ago #
woody2000 - Member

Words from the Cotic website:

Huge tyre clearance. Why not? Big road or cyclo-cross tyres (up to 42c), or even 26" wheels with massive 1.8" slicks if you're using discs and want to go super comfy. How about 650B ? Popular with many tourers, and gaining popularity in the mountain bike world, these can be used with discs on the ROADRAT as well.

My guess is you can do pretty much what you like with it.

Posted 2 years ago #
Tiboy - Member

Nope, no problems at all, actually ended up setting it up twice, once on my wife's roadrat, who then decided she wanted bigger wheels as she's on a small frame, then on my roadrat. Worth getting specific 26" guards though, I was sold mine as 26" but think I was scammed as theya re way too big. ONly poorly fitted area is between the chainstays, it's very tight and hard to get to the bolt-hole. drop me an email and I'll send some pics if you like.

Posted 2 years ago #
wwaswas - Member

"ONly poorly fitted area is between the chainstays"

If you cut the body of a 'berol' felt tip you can use the plastic tube as a psacer with a longer bolt to bring the guard nearer the tyre. Just cu the right amount of tube off the pen to adjust the distance.

Posted 2 years ago #
Tiboy - Member

Nice tip wwaswas, will give that a go!

Posted 2 years ago #
mansonsoul - Member

Tip duly noted for when I get mine...

Posted 2 years ago #
mansonsoul - Member

Tiboy YGM

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