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Originally Posted by BruceMetras
I'm running 2.0 Schwalbe Big Apples front and rear on my Xootr Swift with no clearance issues, but also not running fenders..
Yet Xootr told me that the manufacturing and assembly tolerances of the fork and stays on the currently shipping frame are such that they could not guarantee a 2" Big Apple tire would fit ...they might and then again they might not... but a 1.75" tire would be no problem.

I took a calipers to my front fork and it was narrower than 50mm at the location where I think the Big Apple would be their widest. So it would be a $125 gamble to buy the Big Apples and have the LBS attempt to install them. I've read the BAs are a bear to install. I'd have a go at it myself otherwise.

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