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The Bike Not Me........
So I needed to replace the worn out Mountain Kings on the single speed before I could could go and ride in the snow. I remembered I had a pair of Kenda 2.5's that I had bough from On One on a whim without checking the size, they had been hanging around for ages. So after quite a bit of wrestling to get them on the skinny rims, and to my surprise they fitted (just) in the Recon front fork. They also fitted in frame as well 🙂
and low the Chubby bike was born.
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After a quick spin I let some more air out the tyres, then went on the ride.
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The bike performed brilliantly in the snow, getting great bite and spinning along nicely. There was downside as there was a huge amount of drag on anything that was not covered in snow ( the 2 miles road hill back to the house in particular)
The Kenda tyres are massive and the wheel is bigger than a 700c with tyre on.
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The ride was great fun but very tiring. I cant wait for full snow night ride.
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so how about a new nichete The Chubby ?
Old hat I'm afraid...
Been running the fastest possible tyres I could on my ss for a couple of years now 🙂 helps being rigid, more room for rubber!
Jealous of all that snow.....:-)
Aaarg Snow going. Really want to try the tyres on pack Ice, but will have to change them to something skinnier if the snow goes.