I've had the Large Marge out for one ride so far. The following is a
short review that I sent to Surly on the rim's performance::::::
----------"I took the Marge out for an hour ride at Floyd yesterday
after school. I'm really sold on it. The only downside is that if I
mount brakes on it, they may stick out too far, but I won't know if this
will be a problem until I try it. When I get some free time, I'll weld
on a set of Magura mounts and try my Maguras on it.
I was running the air pressure real low so that the tire flattened out
wider than the rim when I was riding. I'm not sure of the pressure, but
I can easily press my thumb into the tire. I could never run this low on
an Alex DX32 rim. I thought the low pressure and medium volume rim would
be trouble when hopping onto logs and rolling over roots, but the extra
width of the rim makes the footprint bigger and spreads out the weight
more. I only smacked the rim twice; once rolling over a tree branch hard
and another time on a rock on rocky downhill. Traction is Off-The-Wall
with this thing!!! It feels like your riding a 3 inch tire. I was going
down a lot of the really loose, sketchy hills at Floyd and I couldn't
get the tire to break loose once. The hills were really churned up from
recent horse traffic and have lots of root drop-offs on them. Also, on
the off camber stuff that usually gives me trouble, the tire remained
stable and didn't try to turn into the hill. Normally, the tire wants to
roll of the rim on off-camber stuff, unless you have the pressure jacked
way up. Cornering on dirt feels rock solid too, but cornering on
pavement is harder. Next time out, I'm going to up the tire pressure a
little bit and that may improve cornering on cement.
One more thing; I don't think the large Marge feels heavy at all. In
fact, it feels responsive and accelerates quickly; of course this may
change when I switch to Gazz. The MegaBlaster tire is only around 700
grams, so it's light for its size. The Gazz, though heavy, will be able
to bomb over anything without worry of smacking the rim."--------
I'll keep everyone posted on the progress of the testing. Max Dingemans
will be testing one too, and I'm sure He'll be able add comments of his
own. I'll bring it along on the muni ride at Regionals on may 9th, if
anyone going to that wants to give it a try.
later.... Mojoe
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