Marzocchi Marathon LR max tyre size?
jrab
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A quick question on recommended tyre sizes for forks. Bike is a hardtail used for XC stuff, nothing much technical (too inexperienced & wussy for that!!). Currently running Nobby Nic 26x2.1 front & rear, happy with the tyres but thinking of trying a wider front, ie Nobby Nic 2.25 or 2.4 (559-57 and 559-60 respectively compared to current 559-54, increases air volume +11% volume or +25% each). Note - I'm NOT looking for "try a High Roller / Minion / etc" suggestions....!
Looking at the current setup with the 2.1 tyre, there's plenty of room for the 2.25, but looks a bit tighter for the 2.4. According to the manual for my Marzocchi Marathon LR forks, the max recommended tyre size is 60mm wide with max wheel+tyre diameter of 684mm. The 2.4 Nobby Nic would be right on the 60mm width and have an overall diameter of 579mm. Question is - are the Marzocchi recommendations likely to be the biggest tyre that will fit without rubbing the fork, or will it allow for at least some amount of mud clearance top & sides??
By the way, rims are 559x19c - the 2.4 tyres might be a touch wide for the rims, with the Nobby Nic lightweight sidewalls?
I could just go with the 2.25" (is a fair bit lighter and should be a good balance with 2.1" rear?) but figure I'd end up wondering if I should have gone the whole hog with the 2.4"....??
Cheers for any thoughts.
Richard.
Looking at the current setup with the 2.1 tyre, there's plenty of room for the 2.25, but looks a bit tighter for the 2.4. According to the manual for my Marzocchi Marathon LR forks, the max recommended tyre size is 60mm wide with max wheel+tyre diameter of 684mm. The 2.4 Nobby Nic would be right on the 60mm width and have an overall diameter of 579mm. Question is - are the Marzocchi recommendations likely to be the biggest tyre that will fit without rubbing the fork, or will it allow for at least some amount of mud clearance top & sides??
By the way, rims are 559x19c - the 2.4 tyres might be a touch wide for the rims, with the Nobby Nic lightweight sidewalls?
I could just go with the 2.25" (is a fair bit lighter and should be a good balance with 2.1" rear?) but figure I'd end up wondering if I should have gone the whole hog with the 2.4"....??
Cheers for any thoughts.
Richard.
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