{"id":691,"date":"2009-01-18T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T01:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2009-01-18T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T01:17:40","slug":"surly-sand-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Surly Sand Solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-solution-1.jpg\" title=\"sand-solution-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-solution-1.jpg\" alt=\"sand-solution-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sand is fkn hard to ride in. No two ways about it. I&#8217;ve tried dropping the tyre pressure in my 2.1 Kenda Nevegals to between 17 and 20 psi and even with the increase tyre bag it&#8217;s still fkn hard work peddling over sand. Frustration set in after my last training ride and I decided to come home and do some research on the net.. The Surly 1&#215;1 has massive tyre clearance which got me to thinking &#8216;how big a tyre could I run?&#8217;&#8230; A quick hunt about on Google presented the above image ^^^ a Surly 1&#215;1 Minnesota &#8216;Snow Bike&#8217;. The Minnesota locals have to suffer snow for months and months on end and have adapted their bikes to suit the local conditions. These fellas use the Surly &#8216;large marge&#8217; rim (65mm wide) with Nokian 3.0 tyres to &#8216;float&#8217; over the snow. To fit these huge wheels they cut off the v-brake lugs to improve clearance in the fork arch and rear stays. This might be a tad more extreme solution than I was looking for but I&#8217;m thinking about trying a wider rim and maybe using my old DH tyres, the 2.7 Maxxis\u00a0Minions to see if I can get anymore float. Might also experiment with Sammies 650b wheelset..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-solution-2.jpg\" title=\"sand-solution-2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-solution-2.jpg\" alt=\"sand-solution-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sand is fkn hard to ride in. No two ways about it. I&#8217;ve tried dropping the tyre pressure in my 2.1 Kenda Nevegals to between 17 and 20 psi and even with the increase tyre bag it&#8217;s still fkn hard work peddling over sand. Frustration set in after my last training ride and I decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surly Sand Solution?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}