I am secretly hoping that the next Sam would be made for wider tires (and ever so slightly longer chain-stay). There's no space in the garage for another bike, but I'll somehow make space in the living room if there is going to be a 51cm Sam that can run 650bx2.15 Almotions :)
On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 14:49:49 UTC-7 Nathan F wrote: > I run 43mm Gravelkings on my 55 canti sam w/fenders and they fit fine. I > think the 50mm would probably squeeze in (assuming they are a slick tire, > and not knobby), but you'd be leaving very little room for any debris. That > might be an issue if your wheel is ever slightly out of true or dish. And I > probably wouldn't ride off road with them. > > There hasn't been word about whether the new run of Sams will be identical > to the last. The current trend seems to be more and more clearance in each > model year, so you may be in luck. > > Nathan in PDX > > On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 07:55:02 UTC-7, Andrew Nussbaum wrote: >> >> All, >> >> I am slowly coming to the realization that my 58cm Toyo Atlantis might be >> a smidgen too large for me. So I am considering buying one of the run of >> Sams that are coming this fall if they have canti posts. My hope would be >> to largely swap over all of my Atlantis build to the Sam (and selling the >> Atlantis frameset here). One question I have is about tire clearance. Riv >> says <https://www.rivbike.com/pages/geometry> that the 700c 55cm Sam >> fits 47mm tires, but I would like to squeeze in my 50mm Gravel Kings. Has >> anyone had success with getting slightly larger tires onto their Sam? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andrew >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4ea5b8db-4de9-4615-beb0-f5dff2c07d16n%40googlegroups.com.
