Glad to discover at least one other person dumb enough to ride the Colorado Trail fully rigid!
I recently built a modern mountain bike with 27.5x2.8 tires to replace some 29x2.4 tires. the 2.8" was a lot of heft at first but I got used to it. At higher pressures, it can roll pretty quickly. Even at 20-25 psi you can plod along pretty fine. The ability to ride through any terrain, including the loose sand found in Baja, has been indispensable. 29x2.8 would, of course, be heavier and better suited for a larger rider. Now I couldn't tell you about the fixed gear part. Sounds hard. On Friday, January 11, 2019 at 2:08:03 PM UTC-8, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > I’m toying with the idea of a Boots (fixed gear version). I’d love to hear > your experience of bikepacking with 2.6” to 2.8” tires vs. 2.1” or similar > tires. This is for a bikepacking rig, so will be on pavement, dirt, and > trail roughly equally. How big the cost in climbing? How great the gain in > just rolling over stuff? My reference point is 38mm tires on the Quickbeam > vs. 2.1” on the Hunqabeam, but I’ve not bikepacked with the 38mm. I was > delighted/astounded at what I rode over fixed gear on the Colorado Trail > last year on the Hunqabeam. > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.CredoFamily.org > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
