Going Long and Hard.

Mumonkan said:
ditchin the 65 nexties?

id prolly buy those jawns if theyre in good shape
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That ish all went bye bye when I condensed everything into the S-Works. Thought I could get bye with a singular wheelset but I don't want to risk annihilating the BFDs. Specialized is sending me a pair of the new Tracer tires too so should be lighter than my old summer setup while still being wide and dope.
 
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Mumonkan said:
this thread is useless without grams.

what do those beautiful bastards end up weighing?
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I actually built them over a couple days in between other things so it didn't weigh everything out separately. The rims are 600ish grams, lighter than a Marge Lite but a little heavier than a Nextie Black Eagle. But that's not apples to apples because these are 80mm wide vs. 65mm. The BFDs are 400 grams so I added about a pound. The new Fast Trak tire is under 1,000 grams though so I lose over a pound in tires compared to the Larry/HuDu I usually run in summer. Overall the bike will still hover at that 20 pound mark.

More importantly here is the quality. It's really on another level compared to any other aluminum rim offering. True tubeless tire and rim, finally, fat bikes have arrived.
 
thats nuts. weight furthest from the hub is most important anyway, so ~1/4- 1/2 pound saved each tire is pretty huge

i will anxiously await your impressions of the fast traks. does the casing seem paper thin or can it still take a beating like GC's?

over/under on how soon you rip a hole in one? i say a month or 1000 miles, whichever comes first
 
They're light, but not as stupid as FatBNimbles or Juggernauts so I'm quasi-optimistic. Quasi. I say 500 miles.
 
Not too many Fatbikers with green helmets heading towards Washington Ave. I didn't see a beard so I wasn't sure. If it was you when I saw you I will guesstimate your pace at 14mph
 
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