What's your iron horse of choice for the wrt?
Fatbike, mountain bike or cx/gravel bike?

My only mountain bike ... Full ridged, single speed , charge cooker , 29wheels 2.4 tires . perfect for everything

Fully rigid 29er with 40mm wide cx tyres. light and agile, bumpy and slow.

Fat Again ... if i make it this time

Ogre

Not that I have other options fully rigid 29er with 2.1 cos that's what's on her.

Looking forward to it.

If anyone is considering riding a fat bike, I can knock you up a route that will provide a level of justification to your choice to drag such a thing about ... should you so wish

I'm 90% self convinced my fatty is my iron horse of choice. I've tried to plan a route mainly on forest fire roads with a bit of single track and a few country lanes. Thanks norm for route offer but having spent 4 days in Dartmoor at the end of December bikepacking on the fatty I'm quite looking forward to an easy weekend in Wales

Are you sure? I know some lovely sections of bog ideally suited to 4" or bigger tyres

Bearbonesnorm wrote:Are you sure? I know some lovely sections of bog ideally suited to 4" or bigger tyres

I may accidentally stumble on such delights. I'll let you know on Monday afternoon.

Hope my CX with 35mm Smart Sams will work, as it's that or the road bike with 23mm slicks!

29er+

Stooge 29"

ECR 29+, it's that or my wife's beach cruiser

Pinnacle Ramin 3 plus, bit concerned about pedaling 3 inch rubber on tarmac climbs :( .. gonna be a slog !
any recommendations on different rubber that will roll easier ?

any recommendations on different rubber that will roll easier ?

2.8" Super Moto X might be worth a look. Not a light tyre but looks like it should roll well.

2.4" X-Kings would also be worth considering.

Bearbonesnorm wrote:

any recommendations on different rubber that will roll easier ?

2.8" Super Moto X might be worth a look. Not a light tyre but looks like it should roll well.

2.4" X-Kings would also be worth considering.

reckon the moto x will be ok on the gravel stuff stu, like around claewen res etc ?

reckon the moto x will be ok on the gravel stuff stu, like around claewen res etc ?

I'd have thought they'd be fine on anything other than wet grass / mud.

Stumpym4 wrote:Pinnacle Ramin 3 plus, bit concerned about pedaling 3 inch rubber on tarmac climbs :( .. gonna be a slog !
any recommendations on different rubber that will roll easier ?

Or my other option is the arkose with 40mm nanos on ?

Stumpym4 wrote:

Stumpym4 wrote:Pinnacle Ramin 3 plus, bit concerned about pedaling 3 inch rubber on tarmac climbs :( .. gonna be a slog !
any recommendations on different rubber that will roll easier ?

Or my other option is the arkose with 40mm nanos on ?

On those steep mid Wales Tarmac climbs it's not the rubber that's the limiting factor.

26-inch full-bounce MTB. Over 20 years old, so not particularly light, but still a lovely bike, even if it looks a bit dated

2.35 Hans Dampf on the front and 2.10 Nobby Nic on the rear — that's as big as the frame and suspension fork allow. I've no idea if these are good tyres, but I'm hoping they'll be good enough.

Probably 14kg just for the bike, plus 7-8kg of stuff — this will be my first, so I can't even attempt a bit of "TLS". I'll just have to pedal harder ...

26 hard tail.
gravel bike not built yet

For every previous years WRT I've been in Fat mode

After months of training for London Marathon I'll be in medium mode this year!

I was hoping to go rigid b+ having ordered a Shand in Feb. Unfortunately its not going to be ready in time so it's stardard 29er hardtail for me. 2.3"

AlexGold wrote:Hope my CX with 35mm Smart Sams will work, as it's that or the road bike with 23mm slicks!

Rather you than me. You may struggle on some parts of my route.

Me n the other half will be on 29ers with normal MTB tyres. I run a steel Sturdy frame with 2.3s - Specialized Slaughter on the back and a Specialized Control tyre on the front.



The other half will be running his Specialized Stumpjumper Evo hardtail with 2.0 Bontragner mud tyres.

Cos that's what we have, and that'll do the job.

Genesis Longitude 27.5 - Still with the 2.8 Trailblazers - Might even clean it just for the occasion, maybe.