My commentary: This goes right up to the top of my short list with other bikes that have 57mm+ tire clearance (Argon18 Dark Matter, Lauf Seigla, 3t Extremo). I like how Open does things and this hits a lot of the right notes for me — it’d be awesome with some Schwalbe G-One Speed Pro tires on it.
oalfonso on
Gravel fatbikes, yeah.
w1n5t0nM1k3y on
So is there enough clearance for the front derailleur to not contact the tire?
Seems like the frame has a mounting point for a front derailleur, but the seat tube is set in quite a bit from the bottom bracket.
From a quick look it seems like they just have a big gap between the seat tube and the chain stays, so I would guess that fixes any issues with the derailleur interfering wider tires, but at the expense of needing to have longer than necessary chainstays.
I wonder if most front derailleurs have enough swing to manage getting far enough out to ensure they can shift properly to the big chain ring.
trytochaseme on
I wanna see a pic of it all built up
gravelpi on
Shame about the stem/bar thing, it was looking really good.
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Oh, and just found the press release on their site here:
https://opencycle.com/blog/launching-the-wi.de.-2.0
My commentary: This goes right up to the top of my short list with other bikes that have 57mm+ tire clearance (Argon18 Dark Matter, Lauf Seigla, 3t Extremo). I like how Open does things and this hits a lot of the right notes for me — it’d be awesome with some Schwalbe G-One Speed Pro tires on it.
Gravel fatbikes, yeah.
So is there enough clearance for the front derailleur to not contact the tire?
Seems like the frame has a mounting point for a front derailleur, but the seat tube is set in quite a bit from the bottom bracket.
From a quick look it seems like they just have a big gap between the seat tube and the chain stays, so I would guess that fixes any issues with the derailleur interfering wider tires, but at the expense of needing to have longer than necessary chainstays.
I wonder if most front derailleurs have enough swing to manage getting far enough out to ensure they can shift properly to the big chain ring.
I wanna see a pic of it all built up
Shame about the stem/bar thing, it was looking really good.