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| Could not be more accurate |
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| Continental Slash 26x2.3 tire on the rear |
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| Continental Diesel 2.5 (measures out to 2.7 with 65mm rims) on the front with plenty of room to spare. |
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| Still a fair amount of clearance on the rear. |
After a few rides on various flavors of fat bikes and really loving high volume low pressure tires more and more I decided to put "fatties fit fine" to the real test. My Surly Troll is rated to handle 2.7in tires and very easily lives up to that and fits 65mm wide fat bike rims great. Since money is tight I ordered a set of
Weinmann DHL65 rims that I laced to some used XT hubs we had laying around the shop. Despite being cheap rims they laced up pretty well and actually fit in the frame without any modifications being made, I even got to keep my V-brake studs. You do have to put the wheel in at an angle to get it around the studs but it is more than doable, even trailside like I found out earlier today.
