29″er Snow Bike Rim Debuts
January 17th, 2008 by Guitar Ted
So you are sitting there in your abode staring out a frosted window thinking, “If only there were a way to make my 29″er roll over that white stuff!” Well, this rim may be your answer. It is a product from Speedway Cycles, a shop located in Alaska (where else!) that specializes in snow bike riding.
The rim features several cut outs to help save weight and it is available in 26″er size and in black in a 29″er size. The weight for the 29″er size is approximately 730grams and the cost is $100.00 per rim. Right now the only drilling available is a 32 hole standard, but there is talk of doing 36 hole drillings of these as well.
Contact Speedway Cycles for more info or check out this thread on mtbr.com.
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GT - thanks for posting. This is a cool idea. I bet you could run some 2.4 Racing Ralphs or 2.55 WW LTs if you wanted to do this on the cheap and save the $$ it would take to invest in Endomorphs.
Snow, whats Snow?
I remember in the early 90’s when guys racing the Iditarod on bikes would take regular mountain rims and tack-weld them side by side to get a wider rim/tire interface. Then Snowcat came along and ruined the whole ghetto-fab construction that made the race so dangerous. Hooray for progress
As I remember the USA press made an annual hoohah of the whole thing till Andy Heading from the UK won it first go. They promptly shut up.
Nice. Now all we need is a 622 Endomorph and a monster frame to fit it.
A 622×76 Endomorph would be off the cool scale yes. Butwill not happen, as it’s not Surly’s own idea.
Who got money for a tire mold and pre-paying the first couple hundred tires?