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My mountain rims are 30mm internal and are ideally set up with 2.4-2.5" tires, which is what I run in the summer. Maxxis Assegai DD 3C Maxxgrip up front and either a Minion DHF or DHR in the rear in the DD casing. My Ice Spikers are 2.6 and they feel fine for winter riding but the sidewalls are too flimsy for summer riding even if they didn't have studs. I would go as large as 2.8 on the 30mm rim for winter but they wouldn't fit between the seat stays. The 2.6s are pretty tight as it is, but since there's no muck in the winter it's ok. On the sidewalls, I haven't been satisfied with any folding bead tire until Maxxis came out with the Double Down sidewall. EXO is too flimsy and I ding my rims all the time even at decently high pressures but DD has very close to that lovely damped feel of a dual ply DH tire and I can run 20PSI without mangling my rims. Haven't tried EXO+ yet but I might tray that up front. Been thinking about running an insert in the rear. All of which comes with a weight penalty but I'm close to 200lbs kitted up, I like to go fast on rough terrain and I'm a hack so that's what informs my choice of rubber.
For snow riding, even with narrow rims I think you could get away with as big a tire as will fit in your frame and fork as there's generally not the same kind of forces as there would be on the trail in the summer and a bit of squirm might be an acceptable tradeoff for more float.
My Fatbike rims are a very narrow 60mm. Good enough for my purposes at this point, though.
Hi Meenkya
Although you are in Florida, you might want to check out the cycling club there is in Tokyo. Lots of great pros on it and a fun forum.
I'll be touring Okinawa and mainland Japan fairly soon and I have a little blog going on over there. I also live in Japan and been a cyclist for some time, but not at the pro level. Mostly a weekend warrior of just letting them tires take me to new roads out in the countryside.
Stop on over and say hello. Got members from all over the world also.
Tokyo Cycling Club (tokyocycle.com)
You guys are killing me with your pics. 
In Wisconsin, we're now in that horrible no-man's-land where the snow has turned to mush, but the roads are still covered with salt. So I'm down to only riding if I have a utilitarian reason for it. I can't wait for the first big spring rain to wash the salt away, then I'll get the nice bikes out.
In Wisconsin, we're now in that horrible no-man's-land where the snow has turned to mush, but the roads are still covered with salt. So I'm down to only riding if I have a utilitarian reason for it. I can't wait for the first big spring rain to wash the salt away, then I'll get the nice bikes out.
A good day to ride, very nice weather. Last week was rain, wind and mud.
I did a gravel ride (AKA I rode my hardtail to some mountain biking 
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For those about to ride!
).For those about to ride!
Building my dream BMX three years ago. Took me only 30 years to make it happen.
Very cool! The frame is beautiful!
Are those Teflon strips?
I used that on my mtb for a while some years ago, before switching to tubeless.
I never did BMX, so I don't know if it's common in that style.
On my Gravel bike I'm using very soft tires. They're very comfortable, 47mm wide, but I already ruined one tire on a pinch flat on a side walk.
I'm waiting for my local store to have some sponjes in stock. The owner, which is a friend of mine, is using that on his cyclocross bike and allows him to go with 1psi (!).
Both sets of rims on my touring and mountain bikes have external widths of 23mm according to my calipers. 2.0 is the biggest tire I've got on there now and at softer pressures, they can feel like the tire gets a little foldy.
Well, this is nowhere near as cool, but it was 50 degrees out today, so I figured I could set the winter bike aside, and went out on my not quite so gritty shopping bike. Brought a bag of potting soil home from the garden store. Now I'm not sure I believe in the magic of potting soil as opposed to just digging up some dirt, but the dirt in the garden will be frozen for another month.
The first spring ride without the studded tires is always a treat.
Federal XL Rim Tape (Pair) - Orange With Black Logo
These are nylon strips, I think they are on the heavy duty side for the BMX standards. I had to look up for the sponges, I had no idea they existed. Nice.
I want to go to Portugal . I never thought about cycling there though. Beautiful pictures
Love winter riding, but can't wait to get my summer bikes !!!!
Shot from last week
Shot from last week
That first picture looks like something I saw on someone's Youtube page. Outsider MTB lives in the Orange country area so that first picture reminds me of a video he took. As I remember, the trail was in Santiago Canyon.I did a gravel ride (AKA I rode my hardtail to some mountain biking
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For those about to ride!
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I subscribe to Outside MTB and ride a lot of the same trails as him. The flag in my pic is at an area called Santiago Oaks. I know he's done videos there but there's also another flag on Santiago Truck Trail at the top of a trail called The Luge, pictured below.
Do you subscribe to that channel and not live in SoCal or Orange County?
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After watching this vid, Fat Bikes are the coolest things and I'm thinking what are the fattest tires I can fit on my 26" rims....... because I just can't go dumping more coin into a whole new bike.
Yep - I went through the same process after I missed out buying the last fat bike in the city by less than 24 hours last November. No matter what, I cannot convert either of my MTBs into anything approaching a fat bike.
Now in the olden days (when we used to wear onions on our belts, that was the style at the time) we just rode our skinny bikes all winter on some of the trails. Some rides were more difficult than others! Somewhere around here, I have some pics of me on my mid 90s hardtail jammin' down a snowmobile trail in the middle of nowhere.
This year, around here, was just about perfect for a fat bike. I didn't really have the wherewithal to take skinny bikes out. Next year, fat bike for sure!
I did that too in the '90s but we had to wait for the perfect snow condition ( very hard packed )
Since I've always lived down town , the perfect snow condition + being OFF and in the country side made for some very rare "good" occasions !
But now that I have a Fat bike ......
