velomaniac":25w1c58g said:
Nah the fatbike as we know it in the UK regardless of definition had Surly Endomorph tyres to start with and thus 3.7" wide is the default minimum. Anything less than this existed for DH and cruiser bikes before the term fat was coined. Thus Jamies 1x1 is still 26+, not half or three quarter fat.
A half fat has one tyre of 3.7" wide or greater.
A three quarter fat has one tyre of 3.7" or greater and one tyre in excess of 2.5" which is the largest commonly available size so a 2.6" - 3.45" would be about right.
Anyway 26er Plus is pretty niche as it is !
That's outmoded thinking from the stone age of fatbiking, we need to take a different approach for this modern era of more tyres.
a = 3.7" + 2.35" = 6" (plus a poofteenth) aka half-fat
b = 3.0" + 3.0" = 6"
therefore a = b unless you are worried about insignificant figures.
So Jamie's bike is at least a half-fat, but, 3" is 0.81 of 3.7", ie more than ¾.
Because we are not worrying about poofteenths, let's call it a ¾ fat. Which is justified because its tyres are the same both ends, not like one of those unbalanced mongrelised half-fats. (You'd never catch me building one of them, oh no
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Which also promotes Krampi to the higher level of ¾ fat.
I wonder why no-one has thought of this before.
I'm totally objective in this of course. Awaiting the delivery of 3" tyres to ThreeQuarterFat my 1x1 in no way influences my thinking...
