I have a prototype Hunqapillar, from just before they released them for sale.
The clearance on it is still pretty dang good. I easily do 700x55 Big Bens, and I'm pretty sure I could do 2.15's or so in something more knobby like Smart Sam. My understanding is that the clearance widened from mine through the first "real" ones sold, onto the modern version. So I doubt there has been a Hunq made that's not great in the tire clearance department. That last statement's true as long as your standards are not such that 2.3" and above defines greatness. I've never tried 2.3's on mine, but I wouldn't venture to say I could go that far. -Jim W. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 3, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Ant Ritchey <likewisewildf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Riv folk & Hunq tribe. > > Ant in Portland, here. Happy to say I'm the most excited owner of the custom > paint jobb'd 62cm 2012 Waterford Hunq (AKA The Silver Fox) that the lovely > Keith B posted FS a few months back. (The sideways picture in that post did > that paint job so little justice!!!) The bike went through a standard > baptism: brutal fenderless solo sunrise mud quest through Forest Park, rack > install and a near immediate swapping and switching of bars, stem & tires. > > The 50mm Schwalbe Duremes that came on the Hunq are wonderful tires & they > are most appreciated additions via their new path in life on the Atlantis. > So no surprise here, right? I wanna go bigger on the Hunqapillar. I threw > on the biggest I had laying around, some 29 x 2.1 Kenda Small Block 8's. My > caliper says 54mm at the widest knob diameter. (I was able to safely squeeze > these onto my Atlantis, for the record.) There's some room to go bigger, of > course and here's where you all can steer me in the right direction... > "Gobs" of clearance when it comes to the fork and chainstays, but looking at > the seat stays it seems like a 60mm/2.35" would be pushing it. > > I'm on the verge of buying the first set of For-The-Hunq tires and I'd very > much appreciate the Good Word of thee Group. I'm looking at some Panaracer > 2.2's but would love to max this baby out! Can i go bigger? What's the > word? Do you Bombadil riders get more clearance or no? > > From the design perspective: Probably ain't so easy to make much more > clearance in the seat stay zone without doing something funky (ie bowed > Atlantis chainstays), but my function/design question is this: why mega wide > clearances at the fork & chainstays if the seat stay clearance is the ceiling > at a mere (sarcasm) 59.5ishmm? > > Also- if anyone recalls the initial FS posting and thread for this bike, > (---> HERE <----) there was a mention by the now-previous owner of "larger > tire clearance edition" > which roused some questions in the group to little avail. Were early batches > of Hunq's maxing out at a more narrow tire? It's no big deal but I admit I > am a little confused by this claim. Any and all info greatly appreciated. > OK. Enough. I'm gonna go ride now, I swear. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
