Those 3 inch tyres just seem idiotic, how many people running 2.5 supertacky minions have ever thought….you know what…I need gripper, heavier slower tyres.
Having ridden 2.5″ supertacky High rollers and 4″ Floaters almost back to back, the floaters roll better, and grip better.
And I’ve said it before it’s not 4″ of undamped travel, well it is, but you’re never likely to use it, it take the same force to compress a 4″ tyre 2″ as it does to compress a 2″ tyre 2″ at twice the pressure, which is about what people run them at (20someting PSI in a 2.2 vs 10Psi in a 4″). That 2nd 2″ is just in reserve, sure you could compress it, but that would take double kind of force that gives a double snakebite. What you do get is a really supple tyre that deforms over smaller trail detrious, and as it’s half the pressure (c.f. spring rate) of a conventional tyre it would only need half the damping anyway.
Just had to google what boost is.
Could they really not achieve that by telling the manufacturers to offset the existing rear hub by 3mm and even out the DS/NDS spoke tension in the process? The cranks fine, but everyone else could just have run the chainring in the outer rather than middle position.
And 110mm hubs? What does that help? 100mm<3″, the tyres would (and did, see the insitigator) have fit.
The bike industry really does seem to be heading down Motorbike route of buying a complete bike, with only a few interchangeable bits.