So I would like to give 29+ front a go on my lurcher to see what it's all about. I have a Fargo v2 rigid fork will one fit in that you reckon? What's the cheapest way I can try it out?

(Blatantly testing the water to see if some one would lone me a spare front wheel...)

Yeah, it'll fit. My mate runs Knards on Crests. Travers has a blog post showing the tyre isnt *that* much smaller than on a wide rim.

So if I could pick up the tyre cheap then I could probs get a fair idea of what it's like on my 35mm ish rims then?

I wouldnt run 3.0 knards on a crest personally.

35mm and they will run fine, but not quite as nice as on 45 / 50 mm rims

I have a spare 27tpi knard you can borrow if your willing to cover the cost of postage, could even be persuaded to sell it if you like it

composite wrote:So if I could pick up the tyre cheap then I could probs get a fair idea of what it's like on my 35mm ish rims then?

your rims are only 30mm external, so 23-25mm internal, way too narrow for knards.

I have run Knards on Stans Crest rims without any issues (on the trail) but I did find that the area just above the bead did start to wear and small holes became visible (stans fluid bubbles out) These soon sealed with a spin of the wheel and I didn't notice much drop in pressure over the next couple of weeks. I did return to wider rims...my nice new carbon ones just to give me a bit more peace of mind, plus you can run them a lower pressures.

I got the light bike wider 29er rims and I'm fairly sure they were wider than 30mm thinking about it more 34mm comes to mind?

I take the point though that they are still probably a bit narrow.

29er Nimbus dominator rims are 42mm wide and 35 quid from unicycle.co.uk if you want to try a wide rim on the cheap(er)

I've run a Knard on a Crest and it's OK as a try-out but I wouldn't want to run less than 15psi and it's not a long-term solution IMO.

composite wrote:I got the light bike wider 29er rims and I'm fairly sure they were wider than 30mm thinking about it more 34mm comes to mind?

I take the point though that they are still probably a bit narrow.

Nope, they are 30mm... http://www.light-bicycle.com/wider-carb ... DLOXoBdXaF

Fair enough.