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The Street => The Bike Shop => Topic started by: alaskun on November 11, 2015, 12:40:42 AM
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what's the biggest tire I can use on them? I don't know if it makes a difference, but they're the 28mm/chase gouin model...
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I investigated it a while ago, cant remember what I found out. There is information to be found though, google around.
I think I asked Pat from Flatlandfuel, he knew. I think that the 28mm CG model has terrible tyre clearence due to low crown.
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I had a pair I got off bigben and i couldn't run a 2.25 aitken. Thinks I tried a 2.2 tww
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if you got a grinder you could easily grind some of the material down from the crown that is just there bc the designer Chase G didn't like the toe of his shoe jamming in there a certain way.
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i ran a 2.10 aaron ross tire when I had the zero offset forks, was pretty close.
also that looks like its going to be really awesome
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The tire clearance on those is super minimal when it comes to tire height. 1.95 might be pushing it. The forks were marketed along with the 1.85-1.75 Chase G tires at the time amd clearance was perfect for foot-jam tricks. Width wise you were pretty okay to do up to 2.1 but you'd have to run your wheel lower in the dropouts.
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I had a pair I got off bigben and i couldn't run a 2.25 aitken. Thinks I tried a 2.2 tww
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they were odyssey classic flats or whatever the old style odyssey forks were i think, pretty sure theyre not the flatware ones
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A 2.thetwintowerswereaconspiracy.
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I put a 2.0 tire in them today and there's plenty of room still. I was wrong to be worried about it.
just curious - does anyone know if the dropouts on the regular flat forks are the same as the chase version, as far as peg clearance goes?
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My friend was able to fit a 2.2 Chase Hawk tire in his zero offset flatware fork.
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I put a 2.0 tire in them today and there's plenty of room still. I was wrong to be worried about it.
just curious - does anyone know if the dropouts on the regular flat forks are the same as the chase version, as far as peg clearance goes?
should be the same
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The Chase G Super Flat Fork is made with a traditional axle to crown dimension, while the other Flatware Forks had a shorter dimension to decrease the amount of space between the steerer and tire. The Super Flat also has the foreskin to bring the steerer as close as possible to a 1.75" tire as possible.
Worth noting, these forks were designed to be flat specific, so I am not sure how they would hold up for street riding.
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foreskin
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welded steertubes do kind of almost look like it...
I tried a 2.25 glh last night out of curiosity, and it definitely doesn't fit