Tyres

[middleagedmadness]

If Northwind is about he can definitely help if not has anybody else had any experience of putting a 3" tyre on the back of a longitude and what's the chain clearance like as I do like my granny gears , looking to replace the trail boss with something with a better profile to protect the sidewall a bit more and there's way more choice in 3" than 2.8 not had any issues yet with the trail blazers apart from being a bit skittish in the clag I seem to be riding in at the moment but the sidewalls do bulge out a little
Cheers

[Loki]

I have a 2018 Longitude that I am running with a tripple, as an experiment I put one of my 3" WTB trail boss tyres in there, clearance to the chain line was not good, single ring or a 51.8mm chainline double should be ample

[Bearbonesnorm]

I did the very same thing on the back of my Ramin for the same reason. Don't forget that rim width will also play a part in how any tyre sits.

http://bearbonesbikepacking.blogspot.co ... min-3.html

[middleagedmadness]

Rim width is the standard 35 mm it's a 17 longitude so it's on a double , don't like 1x on my trail bike I took it off and put that back to 3x9 so not going down that route with this bike ,( maybe I'm just getting old and see it as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist I have now exposed myself to being shot by 1x advocates )

[middleagedmadness]

http://bearbonesbikepacking.blogspot.co ... min-3.html

Read it, looks like a ranger it is ,is it just as much a sh#t to get on as the trail blazers are to get off

[Loki]

Rim width is the standard 35 mm it's a 17 longitude so it's on a double , don't like 1x on my trail bike I took it off and put that back to 3x9 so not going down that route with this bike ,( maybe I'm just getting old and see it as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist I have now exposed myself to being shot by 1x advocates )

Nothing wrong with not wanting 1x, I am a fan of triple chain sets still lol

[Bearbonesnorm]

is it just as much a sh#t to get on as the trail blazers are to get off

WTB all tend to be pretty tight on tubeless ready rims (often too tight to fit on Stans rims at all). However, I recall the Ranger wasn't that bad, maybe because it was a non-tubeless, non-folder?

[firestarter]

I put a tubeless folding ranger on my ramin and it went on easily the trailblazer was a right pain

[middleagedmadness]

I put a tubeless folding ranger on my ramin and it went on easily the trailblazer was a right pain

Thought I'd got sudden arthritis in my thumb's , it took an age to get them off ,not to bad getting them back on though

[thenorthwind]

Sorry, only just seen this thread because I saw the title and thought "Oh no, not another tyre thread" but procrastination has got the better of me. I have a 3" tyre in the back of my 2017 Longitude and I'm still running 2x.

I took a load of photos showing clearance front and back. See here: http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic ... -tyre-size

Edit: just looked back at that thread and I've said the pictures are with the chain on the smallest sprocket, which would have been silly, and clearly isn't the case from the pictures. It's on the biggest sprocket and smallest chainring, i.e. worst-case.

[middleagedmadness]

Cheers Northwind , I remember reading the thread before I bought the bike ,couldn't remember whether you had said there was enough clearance at the rear though