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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