Attention Merlin Malt owners!

Hairylegs66

Hi everyone,

have any of you Malt 1 owners squeezed in a rear tyre bigger than a Panaracer Fire XC Pro 2.1 between the rear chainstays? It already looks a bit tight to me with marginal mud clearance but a bit more volume would be nice to enable lower pressures in the winter months and give my tailbone a break (no pun intended) in the dry season.
All thoughts on the subject welcome please! :?

coynie

Got Kenda Kinetics 2.35in on thr rear of mine

Hairylegs66

Thanks for the post - anyone else gone even bigger?

supersonic

Which year MALT though, have been a few versions.

Hairylegs66

It's a 2010 Malt 1, the polished aluminium version with the interesting 'Word Art' blue Merlin logo.

ralph1471

you really want to go bigger than 2.35? wont it be too big for the rim?

thepha5e

I dont know if it'll fit a malt, though it probably will, but i recommend a Maxxis ardent 2.25 folding 60a, i run one on the rear wheel, and its a good all rounder, and comes up big for it's size - it's a bit bigger than my Maxxis minion 2.35 which i have on the front - so it soak up the bumps well. It's also grippy enough without being too slow on road/xc.

Dirtydog11

ralph1471 wrote:

you really want to go bigger than 2.35? wont it be too big for the rim?

+1 Probably