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Eejit
@Fatbiker
Over the last couple of years I have steadily been increasing my off road tire size.
My first off road bike was an Alan aluminium cantilever cx bike. The Alan was superseded by several steel cx bikes (Colnago, Diamant, Gazelle) until I finally bought my first all road disc bike: a Kona Rove. I reverted back to cantilevers for a short period of time with a Kona Jake, until I finally caught up with the gravel craze with a Lynskey Pro Cross. This was replaced last year by my first ever mountain bike, a Canyon Dude fat bike. The fat bike hype seems to have died down, which makes fat bikes pretty affordable nowadays.
The previous owner had already fitted an XTR 9000 groupset to the bike, so not much room to upgrade there. The only real place to change something for the better was in the wheel deparment. Although very realiable and, the DT Swiss Big Rides are notoriously difficult to convert to tubeless and also quite porky.
After looking all over the internet, I finally found a lovely set of a Tune fat bike hubs laced to insanely light Kurushiro Enso 685 rims. Although by far the most expensive wheelset I have ever owned, I somehow convinsed myself that it was a good investment. It came equipped with an XD driver freehub, so I also went ahead and got a SRAM XO1 groupset to replace the XTR groupset.
So far so good... until I came across an Ebay auction for the frame below yesterday. And somehow placed the winning bid.
Not sure yet how I am going to forward from here just yet. The wheels are just too nice to let go, but to be able to fit them to the new frame would mean a new (expensive) qr hubset. Luckely I haven't gotten round to fitting the XO grouspet to the Dude.