Protecting my frame from too large tyres!

proximo

Heres one he prepared earlier!!!!!

S_J_P

I can't believe this is still being debated, Yeehaamcgee has summarised the options most concisely:

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Just fit smaller tyres you pillock.

:roll:

ratty2k

Err, hardly debating.....

toasty

Have you tried going tyreless? It's almost the standard nowadays, more grip, no more punctures, between 1-3 pounds less weight PER WHEEL. The standard system is Stans Tyreless but a lot of people use a ghetto system. Take off your tyres and you're ready to go! You can get tyreless specific rims but they're not needed (UST = Universal System Tyreless)!

Be sure to try it at high speed over a rocky area, fantastic!

proximo

Hang on a minute! why dont you put 24" wheels on with 2.5" tyres?

ok ok, i know its a "semi sensible" response to such a silly thread but... it just might work!?

Just depends on how "formed" the chainstays actually are?

Or you could just put smaller tyres on in stead?

toasty

New tyres and wheels is a sensible solution to chainstay rub? When he can't afford a new frame as it is :P Tyreless I say!

proximo

or tire-less!

seriously though, what he needs to do is get himself some shopping trolley wheels and put those on, it'd be like a "self steering" bike, all he'd have to do is hang on and hope for the best! and he could even run those tyreless if he wanted to! or he could use the ones you get that can go up esculators that slot into the little grooves!

But my favorite idea is to remove the chain stays all together and just leave the dropouts on the end of the seat stays, but still go tyreless cos that is taking the MTB scene by storm at the moment and i can see it going global! (serious face) :? (tryin not to laugh) (DOH!)

Frankie

a steel frame will actually bend out enough, well, cold forging they call it.

ratty2k

Cold setting actually, you forge stuff with big heavy hammers usually hot, but not always... <pedant mode off!>
While you can actually splay out the dropout end of the chainstays to get say a 135mm hub into a 130mm frame I wouldn't go much further than that...
Also thats at the free end of the chainstays, how do you propose to move them out enough, say 10mm a side at the BB end....?

abbots_mike

anyone else notice that the OP has disappeared since page 1 of this thread. What i really want to know was if he was serious or not :? I sincerely hope not :shock:

Sikora

Surely if your tyres are rubbing that much on your frame, it must be a real effort to actually pedal the thing!

Sikora

Surely if your tyres are rubbing that much on your frame, it must be a real effort to actually pedal the thing!