[RBW] Re: Platypus and Mini-Motos?

Those gold minimotos make me (slightly) regret selling my blue ones. I'll get the Francis out and see if I can finesse some fenders under its (boring silver) minimotos. They really are amazing brakes. Philip Sonoma County, Calif - have a peaceful Armistice Day On Thursday, November 10, 2022

[RBW] Re: Platypus and Mini-Motos?

Thanks for all the feedback everyone ! I’m most likely going to go with MotoLites… On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 9:34:09 AM UTC-6 eric...@gmail.com wrote: > Brandon's Platypus runs MiniMotos with 44mm Rene Herse Snoqualmie Pass > tires on Velocity Atlas rims, as shown in an old news post

[RBW] Re: Platypus and Mini-Motos?

I know Mike Varley at Black Mountain Cycles is a big fan of the Minimoto and specs them for a lot of Monstercross builds, which has a max tire size of 700x50. Paul discusses fender clearance in this video , but as Laing has said, there are other

[RBW] Re: Platypus and Mini-Motos?

Note that rim width changes the width of the tire not the height of the tire. The height of the tire is usually the problem, not the width. Proper adjustment of the brakes will impact the available clearance. There more vertical that you adjust the arms on a V-brake like the Motolite - the

[RBW] Re: Platypus and Mini-Motos?

Or you'll find somebody who has MiniMotos on a Platy. Could go either way  On Monday, November 7, 2022 at 6:52:23 PM UTC-8 CoalTrain wrote: > I have Mini-Motos on my Platypus and love them, I run 42's with plenty of > room. I'll take a pic later on to show the clearance. > > On Monday,

[RBW] Re: Platypus and Mini-Motos?

I have Mini-Motos on my Platypus and love them, I run 42's with plenty of room. I'll take a pic later on to show the clearance. On Monday, November 7, 2022 at 8:14:57 PM UTC-6 Joe Bernard wrote: > You're probably not going to find someone with MiniMotos on a Platy so I > did a bit of

[RBW] Re: Platypus and Mini-Motos?

I don't have minimotos but I do use mini v's on my proto-Gallop and I would think that would be really tight. I had Ultradynamico Cavas on it (which are around 48) and it was really close. I think the minimotos are not quite as tall as what I have and the RH tires run true to size. So I can't