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  • What size tires to make your bike float?
  • ski
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    Because this recent barmy UK weather is getting on my rocks now!

    TandemJeremy
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    Fatbike for you sir

    courtesy of http://fat-bike.com/

    ski
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    TJ what is all that blue stuff in the sky?

    😉

    garrrrpirate
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    That’s not a fat bike.

    This is a fat bike.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    I want to see him crush some of those fixie-twunts to the tight with that! Awesome!

    akak
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    They should have thought of that for this months packrafting article in the mag – just lash the bikes together and away you go 😕

    coolhandluke
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    Loving the green calipers! I bet they don’t overheat down an Alp!

    garrrrpirate
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    It’s nice that he thought about the colour. Maybe an ice tech/ floating rotor upgrade would improve it.

    coolhandluke
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    Is. That a 50mm maxle?

    bigjim
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    You should be able to work it out, from the weight of you and the bike, calculate the volume of water that needs to be displaced, figure out volume of tyre required to do that, then take account of things like wheel size, how high you want to be above the water etc. Might be tiresome (geddit) if your feet are dipping in the sea as you pedal.

    qwerty
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    Is that a 50mm maxle?

    Another industry standard is upon us…… 🙄

    singlespeedstu
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    Are they Hope green team issue components?

    Northwind
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    I do like the way he chose a car caliper rather than a motorbike one- building a monster bike is insane but using a car caliper is illogical

    Incidentally, you’re thinking about this the wrong way. The solution isn’t bigger tyres- it’s lots more normal size tyres!

    coastkid
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    Fattys do indeed float 🙂


    hailes castle 004 by coastkid71, on Flickr

    coatesy
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    Doesn’t need to be a fat-bike, saw a mate in the Mendips have a hissy-fit and throw an early Cannondale into a pond, only to have it float out of reach and need wading up to the thighs to retreive.Think he was the only one not to see the funny side.

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