Originally Posted by
pdlamb
On a smaller tire I'd agree wholeheartedly. But what about the fatness of the tire? I've seen some stupid-low recommendations for tire pressure with wider tires. I don't know where the inflection point would be between "no problem" and "the pressure of a XX tire is too low to keep the tube in place." Do you have any information on how wide a tire or how low tire pressure can go before one runs into the problems you described?
Good question and one I have no specific answer for. I do agree that the fat tire riders I know haven't had tire creep issues at their sub 10psi pressures some run at. I suspect there's not one inflection point (nice term, I'll have to remember that to make me sound smarter than I am
) and both tire and rim shape subtly comes into play. Andy (who dislikes the wide "Q" of fat bikes and thus won't do more than test ride one after servicing it)