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Nice to hear someone is racing fat tires at a high level in non-snow conditions. In my experience a fat bike can be really fast in the right conditions, but most people seem to assume fat bikes a just fun to ride outside the snow.
According to this review the tires should work with the narrow rims. I might need to put in some extra psi though to prevent squirm. https://fat-bike.com/2017/11/fat-bike-tires-on-plus-bike-rims/
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That green frame is very pretty!
If you fancy a drop bar fat, have a look at @substandard8 on Insta. Rides a drop bar Ti fat smokestone. Think he has got the weight of it down to 10kgs. Proper quick as well. Finished 4th Gbduro this year.
A fat 4" tyre will be pretty squirmy on 42mm internal rims. Bit too narrow imo.
I would still go Hope over WI hubs. Not as pretty, but available adaptors mean much more versatile across different Fat standards.