Salsa Fargo 27.5 tyre width faff

Hi,

I’ve just bought a Fargo frame with a view to creating a sort of road, towpath, gravel track tourer. I want to run 27.5 wheels (because I have some). I’ve now realised the frame is designed around 29”/27.5”+ and the min recommended tyres with 27.5 (non +) are 3.0”. Mine are currently 2.1.

Shoving these on the Fargo will drop the BB height a bit. Or maybe a lot, I’m struggling to work it out. Is this going to work or will I just created some kind of human powered lawn edger, i.e. keep hitting the ground?

And just at this point of mild panic I also realise I’ve been riding the same wheels on a Sonder Frontier, also setup for 27.5+/29, without constantly kicking the ground. Would the Fargo be similarly ok, or is it a disaster waiting to happen?

I’ve spent an hour googling but I’m none the wiser and frankly my head hurts.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Try it see how you go.

I run an on one vandal designed around a suspension fork and 2.3 29 tires with a shorter axel to crown ridgid fork and 50c tires -no problems.

Previously I ran a 27.5 frame with 26 wheels and it was mostly awesome except for very rocky stuff where the big ring got smashed. Moved to 30 tooth ring and it was ace until stolen