Those of you that have fitted the rear mud hugger. Does it ever clog up with mud or is there plenty of clearance?
loads of clearance and I didn't even heat mine to fit.
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Alex and others too it may be of interest to you that Wolf tooth components have just introduced a reverse dish direct ring. You do need a direct fit crank but it allows you to run a 170 crank with a 190 rear end and have correct chainline and and so you get a narrower q factor than if you used a 190 crank 😉
Thanks for that Firestarter!
Oh ta, Firestarter. Mine reversed ring seems to work pretty well - except you can't quite get it 'top dead centre' in terms of the best spot for the oval. I'll take a look at the WC one as I could 'save' this one for my Aeris which has the same chainring fitting.
Edit.. You need the raceface cinch type crank btw sorry.
Go Outdoors have 10% off again from 14/1 bringing the Dune back down to £521.99.
Any word on when the large version is due out?
I just picked up a Dune last night, it seems great. Re brakes, is it just the levers that are rubbish or are the calipers bad too? I am torn between just sticking on some xt levers and calipers or trying some TRP Spyke levers. What's the best way to go tubeless with the current rims and jumbo jims?
Cheers
Duncan
I found the brakes to be crap full stop
Swapped them to Deores soon as I could
I think the calipers are crap I stuck on some deores as soon as I could and some on one floaters
Considering the price of a set of basic hydros I wouldn't piss around with the cables, just not worth it this decade...
10% off in Halfords if you want a Voodoo.
Any recommendations for spare tubes for the Dune?
http://nextdaytyres.co.uk/details.aspx/SV13F-26-Schwalbe-InnerTube-Presta-FreeRide/31/555
Nice and light to carry about.
Anyone?
Or just more stock - I'd love to get a Dune but its a 150 mile round trip to my nearest store from the south coast, doesn't make sense adding £50 in travel costs to my cheap winter bike when an (undefined) bit of patience will bring more stock that I can mail order, 10% sale or not!
That's a fair old drive - sure there will be new stock but knowing what I know now, I'd drive and get one 🙂 And we have snow! Only a tiny bit but I'm slacking off for a ride in it. Not on the fat bike counter-intuively because I appear to have bought a chubby!
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I *hope* this has 90% of the grip/fun of the fatty and a bit more all round usage as I've a few road section to do today...
Nice looking bike Alex!
I have had similar thoughts - Scott 720plus (actually started with Spesh Fuse in LBS) have the 27+ wheels and tyres for the slower, shorter winter rides and swop over to 29s for the faster, longer summer days! One do it all bike or two? Hmmmm
I hope you are not going anywhere muddy with that chronicle on the front!
FYI weighted my Dune last night 15.35kg
Floater on the front
Deore Brakes
Specialized bars
On One grips
So not loads changed from standard.
After having the fat bike a Plus sized full sus bike seems more and more tempting now.
Have to let us know how you get on with that Alex nice looking bike
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@nick - I'm with you on the chubby. I love the ride of the fat bike, bought it for a laugh and hardly ridden anything else. My mate has a Stache and he is the same. Not seen his full suss for months. One ride in with new bike glasses on, hard to do a proper review but it put a massive smile on my face.
Lovely frozen condition tho. It's insanely fast once it gets up to speed and the words 'monster truck' absolutely do apply here. It'll roll over anything. Those short chainstays means the handling is surprisingly snappy (not over slack either on the HA) and it changes direction quickly. Comfier than my old non chubby stache and faster downhill and generally more fun. Noticeably slower up hill. Glad I had the wide cassette range. But yeah so far love it 🙂
I must weigh my Dune, I reckon it's a bit lighter than that as I ditched all the 2x8 bracketry. Still the Nate on the front is pretty weighty.
@RD - that's not the issue, it's the standard bonty on the back that's beyond aspirational for UK conditions. The rear would be more scary than the front I reckon in muddy conditions. Sure I'll find out Sunday 😉
Anyway don't want to derail the fat bike thread so as you were....
Any word on when the large version is due out?
Anyone?
+1 Suspect we're not the only people waiting on this
May have to have some test rides later in the year of some Plus size bikes, they do in theory at least combine the best of both.
I've got a 1x10 setup on the way for my Dune so hopefully knock some more weight of it.
Mate has just bought a VooDoo wazoo in 20" and has weighted that at 17kg!! not sure how correct that is
The thing I would say Nick - although need to ride it some more - is the Chubby feels more like a beefed up version of my older non 29+ stache rather than a scaled down fat bike. I think I prefer that. There's something so ridiculous about riding the fat bike that I think would get diluted if you reduced the tyre size.
That ^^ stache feels like a hardtail but way faster (downhill) and far more comfy. And with more grip. The only time it feels EXACTLY like a fat bike is uphill 🙂
Apologies for rubbish picture.
Had a quick spin just to check it goes up the slope of slop. It does easily.
That has justified it's purchase.
I'm really surprised how well it rolls on tarmac. Shall have a proper ride on Sunday and shall be seeking sand. More fun than any other £500 bike.
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Any word on when the large version is due out?
Anyone?
+1 Suspect we're not the only people waiting on this
Plus when mail order will be available again!
I emailed Go Outdoors and they couldn't say yet.
In replacing the JJs for the bargain Floaters on my Dune, I noticed that the rear hub was really grumbling. Stripped it all down but for the life of me I couldn't get the bearings out of the freehub. Have I missed a circlip? Any advice greatfully received.
Hey Dune owners, what size is the seat clamp?
Cheers
d
It's a 31.6 tube so I assume 34.9? Can check for you tomorrow
I wrote up first ride on the chubby here: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?p=3630 - if you're expecting some kind of proper review tho, you might want be disappointed 😉
I've got a 1x10 setup on the way for my Dune so hopefully knock some more weight of it.
Can I be nosey and ask what you've gone for?
Slx mech chain and cassette from the for sale section narrow wide ring and cheap deore shifter from Planet X. Really wasn't going to upgrade till it wore out but all that cost me £50!
Also, can anybody tell me what make and model the hubs are? The rear skewer is marked as QR264r-en-sb, which I think could be Novatec, but I cannot see a hub from them or KT that looks the same.
Cheers
d
According to the spec sheet on the website they're KT, but I don't know if that's correct.
bakey - MemberIn replacing the JJs for the bargain Floaters on my Dune, I noticed that the rear hub was really grumbling. Stripped it all down but for the life of me I couldn't get the bearings out of the freehub. Have I missed a circlip? Any advice greatfully received.
There's one circlip in the freehub, but you can't get at it without shifting the other bearing. I just brute forced it- supported the hub and tonked the middle of the bearing with a socket and coarse grade hammer to create a little slack (it's a pretty standard bearing-spacer-bearing deal so once you have a little slack you can get a tool to the inner race of the other bearing and take it out. I've a sneaking suspicion the circlip is doing nothing btw but I put it back on general principles.
Anyone know what size the headset is? (nothing wrong with it, just that I'm about to have a spare angleset and I'm wondering if it'll fit...)
Hey Northwind, its a FSA No. 57
1.5in-1-1/8in Steerer
Weight 124.6g
Cheers! and curses, too big.
Hey Dune owners who had/have Jumbo Jims, where pressure's are you guys running?
Cheers
It going to depend on where your riding and your weight really.
Muddy natural stuff I can get away with 8-12psi, hard packed stuff at a trail center and it's too little for me and can often hit the rim
Yeah, I'm having to run more air than I want to really in the Jims- I'm only 10 stone but I have to run 9psi in the back or it'll definitely flat. But the tyre feels so much nicer with less pressure, it's a bummer. Just upsized to a 4.8 JJ on the back, hopefully I can go lower in that- I've got 5psi in the front Bud and that's been fine.
(oh aye- 4.8 JJ fits in the back, I think it's a little bigger than the Bud though so the clearance is tighter, maybe 5mm or so. First impression is JJ doesn't seem to grow as much with pressure as Bud does though.)
Not bothering reading back through the many pages on this thread so sorry if it's been done.
I don't know how long the deal is on for (as I don't work for them) but using code PXLIQUID25 gets a very nice 25% off the original On One Fatties
With Carbon fork
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBOOFATX52/on-one-fatty-fat-bike
and with the original fork
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBOOFATX5STL/on-one-fatty-sram-x5-classic-fat-bike
Are you still riding an On One Fatty John? What's it like in the Pine woods?
Being in Crosby id imagine I'd ride similar area's to yourself & I was originally waiting for a large Dune, this could be the instant answer!?
No, I sold it on, it was a great bike for trails, rides up in the hills and the said Pine Woods, but with it's rounded profile tyres I found that it wasn't as good at beach riding as my other Fat Bike with a flatter foot print.
I've gone up to 4.8" tyres on 100mm rims now for the sand around here.
Good to know, thanks John, guess i should only worry about that once i get out & decide its for me 🙂
The Floaters (if fitted correctly) are great trail tyres, simply fitting different tyres such at Surly Larry's on the Fatty would be a great help for summer beach and dunes riding
