Anyone know if i can get 2.5" tyres on my specialized pitch? or do i need to stick with 2.35"'s?
off to the alps for a week...
Thanks
Do you have a Pitch?
Does it have 2.3 tyres on it? (Like the standard ones?)
Is there 0.1 inches or more extra room each side between the stays?
If so, then yes, 2.5s will fit!
Sorry, just being silly.
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I have a Pitch and have absolutely no doubt in my mind , without even looking, that 2.5s will fit. I'm off to the Alps next montth too.
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I'm wondering this too - pretty sure it will be fine at the front, not sure about the back. Will be able to tell you in the next few days as I got some 2.5s cheap to try out.
I put some 2.35 Kendas on mine, with some different wheels with really wide rims. The Kendas looke d a LOT wider, but there was still more room in there.
IIRC RS rate Pikes for 2.5 tyres....
yeah knew the pikes were ok to 2.5, and haven't got around to measuring up the rear of my pitch 😉 just wondered if anyone had done it so knew for sure as wanted to order my tyres today 🙂 no worries...
Hell, it's a 6in travel light freeride bike FFS! They'll fit!
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I thought it was an 'all-mountain' bike. Light freeride now eh? How does that compare to aggressive XC?
It all depends on your 'core : rad' ratio, too 'core and you'll spend your weekends reading MBR and mincing arround the Peaks, this is 'aggressive XC'
Too rad' and you will never leave a trail center, and spend your life whooping and hi5ing at he bottom of blue runs. This is 'Freeride lite'.
More anoyingly it only seems to be in this country that all these subdivisions get confused. In Ammerica it would seem that all-mountain includes 20ft road-gaps! Dirt summed this up well, something allong the lines of "if your busy worying about XYZ problem these forks arent for you, if your busy worying about making the landing still 20ft away then maybe they are"
Tried a 2.5 Big Earl on the front yesterday - plenty of clearance. Pretty sure the back will be fine too.