Large Marge Muni



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See the photos and be amazed:
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Dave from Surly Bikes, http://www.surlybikes.com/

was nice enough to lend me a Large Marge prototype rim built into a
wheel for me to test out. I just got it together and I still can't
beleive how wide it is.


I'll tell more as I get a chance to ride it.


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Mojoe wrote:
> *Dave from Surly Bikes, http://www.surlybikes.com/
> was nice enough to lend me a Large Marge prototype rim built into a
> wheel for me to test out*
i remember you saying you were going to get one during my search for a
wide 29er rim,glad to see you finally got one running.thats fat!


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andrew_carter wrote:
> *So they aren't available in a 24"?
>
> Andrew *


The 26 inch rim won't be in production for another 3 months I think.
They'll probably bring out a 24 inch hoop later, but I think there is a
bigger market for the 26, so thay want to get that out first.

Also, the production model will be anodized black and have machined
braking surfaces.




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I think mine should be here either today, or tomarrow. All we have for
tires in 26" right now is a kollosal (or something) 2.6. Eventually we
might be getting something larger, but I wont raelly be able to start
testing until at least sunday. Looks pretty nice, and I imagine the
traction'd be pretty decent. More Later.


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Wow. That is one fat rim. Kind of like the Snow Cat rim George Peck used
to have, but that one was single-walled, and not intended for what we
do.

Did you know Large Marge used to be the world's biggest unicycle? I
can't remember the wheel size but I think it was 66". It was built by
Jim Moore and ridden by Steve Gordon in the 80s. The previous biggest
wheel was 63.5" by Goran Lundstrom (picture below). I rode that one.

Jim and Steve later created Intense Hortense (or Immense Hortense?), a
73" wheel. I believe Sem Abrahams now owns that one. I have a picture
somewhere of him riding it with big blocks on the pedals.


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Hmm, that doesn't look like large marge to me :(


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It's not Large Marge, it's the cycle described before the part that says
(picture below). That picture was taken in 1983, which may have been
before that Large Marge was built.

I found that picture of Sem on Immense (Intense) Hortense. That's
attached here. Not Large Marge. :)


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Sofa wrote:
> *Hmm, that doesn't look like large marge to me :( *


I was a huge Pee Wee fan as a kid, but I remember having nightmares for
weeks after seeing Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The two scariest scenes for
me were 1. The animatronic clown shot from a low angle when Pee Wee
first lost his bike, and 2. The Large Marge claymation above which I had
managed to repress until you so savagely unlocked it from my inner
psyche just now. Thanks. Looks like it's back to counselling for me:(


"Just tell 'em....LARGE MARGE sent ya! (cackle cackle)


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Excellent project and pics, Mojoe!


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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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I can't decide if I wan t this rim yet. It seems almost *too* wide. With
the flat shape of the gazz, I imagine on this rim it'll go concave :eek:
Also, do we really need wider rims? Eventually it gets too wide and
you have a constant knee knocker. It seems like a 3.0 is a good
compromise, but a 3.0 on a 2.5 rim is massive.


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