{"id":18234,"date":"2015-08-29T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T23:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18234"},"modified":"2015-08-29T19:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T23:35:38","slug":"fat-bike-capacity-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/29\/fat-bike-capacity-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Bike Capacity: 1 + 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/1up_usa_quick-rack\/IMG_8642.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Original Fat Tire Spacer Kit installed in 2011 (left) and new (right). Cut-down black silicone foam grips were added to the spacers to mitigate rattling.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/108899-2\/IMG_8642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve had a need to carry two fat bikes on <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/1up-usa-quick-rack\/\">my well-loved 1Up USA Quick Rack<\/a>, so I ordered a second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1upusa.com\/product-spacerkit.html\">Fat Tire Spacer Kit<\/a>. Price has gone up from $29 to $34 and the style has changed, but it still seems like the best external rack available for carrying a fat bike. The original, which adds Delrin spacers can be seen on the left, and the new style which uses wider angled bits for the tire is on the right.<\/p>\n<p>At 122mm (4.8&#8243;) the new spacer kit is slightly wider than the previous&#8217; 114.5mm (4.5&#8243;). I&#8217;m planning to build a new fat bike with 5&#8243;-class tires, but with the knobs of the 45NRTH <a href=\"http:\/\/45nrth.com\/products\/tires\/flowbeist\">Flowbeist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/45nrth.com\/products\/tires\/dunderbeist\">Dunderbeist<\/a> &#8212; the winter tires intended for the new bike\u00a0&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/45nrth.com\/files\/pages\/13193_45N_Tire_Geo_Update_V3.pdf\">measuring 110mm on an 82mm rim<\/a>\u00a0I should be good. Hopefully the 4.8&#8243; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schwalbetires.com\/bike_tires\/off-road_tires\/jumbo_jim\">Schwalbe Jumbo Jim<\/a>\u00a0also fits, as I&#8217;m likely using those for summer&#8230;\u00a0If the 122mm-width arms are needed for the new bike I&#8217;ll likely move the spacer kit or trays around, but hopefully that won&#8217;t be needed.<\/p>\n<p>When installing these I also took my friend Rodney&#8217;s recommendation and fitted some cut-down bicycle grips to the spacers on both trays. The original design leaves narrow silicone bands in place, but these don&#8217;t span the full width of the Fat Tire spacers\u00a0and the rack can end up making a slight rattling sound. The <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_mukluk_2\/IMG_6576.jpg.html\">original foam grips from the Mukluk 2<\/a>\u00a0were a perfect fit for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve had a need to carry two fat bikes on my well-loved 1Up USA Quick Rack, so I ordered a second Fat Tire Spacer&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/29\/fat-bike-capacity-1-1\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fat Bike Capacity: 1 + 1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18235,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234\/revisions\/18235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}