@wwaswas I compared with my existing bike as well.

Fortunately my existing bike is a Swift :)

So not much help I’m afraid

Thanks!

Hüsker Dü’s run fine on a Marge (haven’t got the light version but that shouldn’t make much difference to how the tyre performs). Tenacious and grippy, not as confidence inspiring as a Nate but that’s relative :) and still a great tyre.

Looks like it’s back over the £25k mark again! I guess when it fell below that a couple of people who wanted a small also pulled out?

letmetalktomark – Member
a 30.9mm ST would have been great though thanks

Mark – I think it’s a 27.2? :?

Firstly let me say that I am not qualified to give financial advice etc. :)

What decides if it’s worth doing is a combination of:

[*] the difference between interest rates on your savings (net) and the rate that you’re paying on your mortgage

how long the mortgage has to run

the amount outstanding on the mortgage[/*]

So without knowing the precise figures it’s hard to say.

My personal view is that it’s worth paying down as much of the mortgage as you can afford as soon as possible as long as the mortgage rate is greater than the net interest on savings. Apologies if I’m teaching you to suck eggs here but in the early days of the mortgage you’re paying mostly interest (assuming a repayment mortgage) but as time goes on each payment pays more capital. So any overpayment will help reduce how long you’re paying the mortgage for, which has to be a good thing!

So overpay as much as you can afford as long as you have an emergency fund to cover major events such as loss of job, new boiler, car repairs, wanting some shiny bits for your bike etc.

In terms of equivalence an Alfine is quoted as having a range of around 300% so equivalent to an 11:33 cassette on a 1×9/10

Not ridden a Krampus but I’d say that they were 2 different beasts. The Krampus will be an evolution from a 29er but, compared to a fatty, not that different. Whereas a fatty is a whole new world.

epicyclo – Member
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If the Puffin rides as nicely as other Singulars, then that’s what I’d go for faced with your choice.

My thinking entirely!

And did anyone mention that a fatty will “make the trail come alive”?

ssnowman – Member
Does anyone know the approximate weight of the prototype?

Not quite answering your question but the expected weight of a Medium is 2.7kg. I think that I read somewhere that the prototypes are heavier

I did my first 100 whilst I was living in New York. Had a puncture part way through and got the tyre up enough to carry on. 20 miles down the road met a group loading bikes into their car and borrowed a pump from them.

The conversation went something like this:

Them “Where you come from?”

Me: “New York” – about 45 miles away at that point

“Where’s your car?”

“London”

“London England?’

“Yes”

“So you riding back to Manhattan?”

“Yes”

“You’ll need some more food then”

He went round his group, who’d finished their ride and held a whip round of energy bars for me!

Mixture of Swifts and B17s across my bikes. Really comfortable and worth the 10 minutes I spend every year on maintenance.

@Wharfedale – you can get a set of wheels from On One for £300

Exploding wheels!

HTH

Singular

Will be fine, I’ve run tyres from 32mm up to 2.5″ on 19mm rims

I’m not far away in ‘Old Berkshire’ and singlespeed does most stuff for me round here on or off road

mpw – Member
Fantastic ride, make me want to run out of the house now and buy a Fat bike.

You could think about http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1471361938/singular-puffin-fatbike :)

Wouldn’t buy a toolkit but just buy good quality versions of the tools that you need that way you can slowly build up a set of tools that will last and not bend/round off after a few uses.

All gone quiet here, thought this thread had the potential to run for days!

Now over £16k! Nearly there!

Problem that doesn’t exist I’m afraid plus wouldn’t using an accelerometer mean that the brake light would come on each time you went up hill?

Brewer’s Droop for your bars :)

I’m in!

I run my Swift singlespeed and Peregrine with an Alfine and don’t touch the EBB to remove the wheel on either bike. No problem with it creaking either.

I use some offcuts of gutter and webbing straps

WHatsize is the prototype in the pics?

I’m guessing it’s a Large as the initial plan was, IIRC, to only make one size

@birney29

drofluf – that’s a stormer of an idea. Like it.

Let me know if you want pictures

@birney29

Just wondering – does anyone make an adapter to allow fat bikes to be carried on a roof rack?

I imagine that the tyres would be way too wide to allow the to be transported on a normal roof mounted rack.

Yes they are too wide

I attached some pieces of guttering with slots cut to my rack and then put a strap through the guttering and round the tyres to secure it.

@beerbiker Have you not heard of n+1? :D

“Then you need to go a little faster than that”

We’ve had them for ages:

I had the same problem – can’t find the link but I think it was on Park Tools or somewhere equally reputable.

They suggest chisel and hammer! As far as I could discover there is no non-destructive way to remove a Dicta freewheel :(

I drifted the plate (where it says Dicta) off with a chisel which allowed me to disassemble it. Hammer & chisel didn’t shift it so I locked it in a vice and turned the wheel

Think I’ve washed some mud of mine at some point. Does that count?

Yes, I’ve done it using a Road BB7 so no compatibility problem with the brake lever

EDIT Double post :roll:

Sounds like:

Either your iPad isn’t synching the book marks that you’ve set up on it with the cloud so the iPhone is pulling the old ones from the Cloud.

Or your iPhone isn’t syncing with the Cloud and so is using the old ones it has on it

Strava power calculations seem to be a work of fiction.

Rode a segment the other week – those of us who use Strava were all within a few seconds of each other but the highest power was twice that of the lowest. We’re all similar weights which is the only other variable that Strava has

whats the ideal width for a 29 er bar? the marys are quite small, i did try the fleegles on a 26, hated them, but on the 29 er, not bad… maybe the higher pitch?

Don’t think there is an ideal any more than there is on a 26er. Whatever feels right for you. And the same bar may feel different on a different geometry bike but the wheel size will be the least of the factors

also anyone use a layback seat post? i do on the 26 er, great stuff, but the 29 er shipped with an inline.

Depends on the relative size of the frames etc.

basically do i copy the set up of the 26er on the 29 er!

Yes, as a starting point I’d get bar heights the same, reach from saddle to bar, saddle height and position as close to that of your existing bike as you can and experiment from there – assuming that you’re happy with the current setup. To get to that position may require a layback post and/or a different stem.

I’d say no more so than other tyres. I’ve got a Nate and a Hüsker Dü on mine at the moment. If anything the Nate is slightly more prone than the Hüsker Dü but I’ve put some Stans in the tube and it seems to be doing the trick.

I

erm……….why not put some Mary bars on it?

My thoughts entirely!

Of course the 29er specific version of the Mary bars would be required….

I will just leave it alone and hope it falls away

I think the chances of that happening are very slim.

4,379 miles. Bought a gunnar ruffian on eBay from a guy in Louisiana. Had him ship it to my buddies bike shop in Fayetteville Arkansas and picked it up when I got there. Brought it back to Stourbridge in a flight case on the plane

Think that beats my flying out to New York for a bike then*….

*Although to be honest I was relocated there for work so bought one online to be delivered to my apartment for when I arrived.