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Re: Extrawheel
Postby rifraf » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:47 pm
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Re: Extrawheel
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby Aushiker » Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:32 pm
As per my setup (sans panniers) it weighs 4.1 kg.
A bit of text and more photos can be found here for those interested.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby Baalzamon » Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:33 pm
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby Aushiker » Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:06 pm
or it can be single speed and it will act as a rear or front wheel. No dynamo on mine ... couldn't afford that.Baalzamon wrote:Hmm Intersting. Spotted that you need to provide your own wheel, it needs to be a front so you could run a dynamo hub in it Can't wait for a proper ride review after you have been over rough terrain.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby il padrone » Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:37 pm
100mm versus 135mm OLND ??Aushiker wrote:or it can be single speed and it will act as a rear or front wheel.
I don't see it being too practical. Some guys doing desert/arctic expeditions using Pugsleys and similar are doing this, but they have a 135mm front end.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby igstar » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:18 pm
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby Aushiker » Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:15 pm
I have just got back from four days riding with the Extrawheel, mainly on single track and gravel roads (lot of pushing there due to our lovely pea gravel). I found it worked well.
Only issue for me was the mudguard fasteners worked loose (lost one) so a bit of rattling. The Ortlieb panniers fitted fine and it towed sweet. I hit over 60 km/h on a bitumen downhill and it felt okay. Mind you I chickened out at that point and slowed down.
I only had it try to out run me once and that was when I was trying to walk the bike and trailer down a very steep washout. Was to be expected given the angle of the descent and the fact that I could hardly keep my grip walking anyway.
So for me, so far a great purchase. Highly recommended.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby John Kennedy » Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:00 pm
Only managed to disengage it when I deliberately tried, by jack knifing it which caused one side to pop off.
Even when I disengaged myself from the bike it managed to stay on! Albeit sans panniers.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby rifraf » Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:12 pm
I'll look forward to seeing more when you've time.
One of the things I like about the Ortliebs is their ability to be hosed off which seems
great as a common theme of recent Mawson trail posts have shown bikes and gear covered in thick
red mud after heavy rain.
I've read the eastern states should be prepared for a wet 2012.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby rifraf » Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:37 pm
Hi Andrew,Aushiker wrote:Hi
I have just got back from four days riding
Andrew
left a question for you in the stove thread with regards to this trip
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby Aushiker » Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:11 am
Great pics. Thanks for sharing. How have you found using the trailer without a mudguard? I am tossing up as to whether to keep it on or take it off.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby John Kennedy » Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:29 am
Aesthetically I love a good pair of fenders. On randos and tourers and the odd roadie, Hammered Honjo's and carbon Gilles Berthoud's mmmhmmm.
Off road, however, I don't really see the point in them. I can't review the Extrawheel w/ or w/o fender 'cause I never installed the thing!
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby Aushiker » Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:09 am
I guess not having them has not bothered you then No mud or spray coming up on to the panniers/bike/you worth noting?John Kennedy wrote:Off road, however, I don't really see the point in them. I can't review the Extrawheel w/ or w/o fender 'cause I never installed the thing!
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby WarrenH » Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:48 am
When doesn't it stop raining here in the east Rifraf ? Every second day it rains and during a few nights, each week ... since March 2009. The rain has been brilliant but it cuts back the off-roading.rifraf wrote:I've read the eastern states should be prepared for a wet 2012.
It doesn't hold well, damaging trails in the wet and its not the best advertisement damaging shared trails, by leaving deep ruts in MOHA country (Miserable Old Hiker's Associations). If there is a deep rut on a narrow trail that has hardened, it doesn't make for a good ride, or pleasant walking if you are having to dodge getting caught in ruts and nothing hangs up an Extrawheel like being in a rut where the erosion is taking over ... and the track drops half a metre unexpectedly.
Raining on Codys Range, above the Goodradigbee River Valley, NSW. It looks more like England here at the moment, than in OZ during summer.
Two shots from on the Cullerin Range above the Yass Plains. This is the same trail, taken only 5 months apart ... from earlier this year. In the second shot I'm higher up the hill by only about 30m. Top fun for Extrawheel haulers crossing these ruts.
The singer songwriter Joni Mitchell produced an album called The Hissing of Summer Lawns. The next time I go along the BNT I can call the crazyguy' journal, The Hissing of the Panniers. 6cm deep is all a rut needs to be, to be hissing the panniers.
How about taking on Sheep-moguls? The tussock grasses hiss the best ... absolutely.
Crossing the Northern ACT grasslands aka the vegi-slots on the BNT ... is just one long hiss.
Have you ridden on 'North Shore Tracks', on those wooden structures well above the ground? In this neck of the bush, for the Extrawheel haulers there are the Northern Frost Plain Tracks (between the Bogong Wilderness and the Bimberi Wilderness) ... and at times just as high and exciting as scary North Shore.
Between the double track (below) it was half metre deep, on each side of the tracks is much deeper, even to a few metres deep. It is amazing how considered your riding will be hauling an Extrawheel because when the Extrawheel goes over the edge, you will not ride it back onto the track, no way. Off the bike and reinstall the trailer. The way the Extrawheel releases itself when in trauma, is fantastic, how it snaps off and prevents the system being damaged. One of these days I'll put the calliper into the spokes, for sure. I carry a few spare drive side spokes and a few regular spokes.
Rif, get with the programme.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby Aushiker » Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:23 am
As I mentioned early I got to play with the Extrawheel last week. Nothing like John's ride but I have now updated my blog posting on the Extrawheel to reflect this experience. All up very happy with the trailer.
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby rifraf » Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:51 pm
Hi Warren,WarrenH wrote:When doesn't it stop raining here in the east Rifraf ? Every second day it rains and during a few nights, each week ... since March 2009. The rain has been brilliant but it cuts back the off-roading.rifraf wrote:I've read the eastern states should be prepared for a wet 2012.
Rif, get with the programme.
Warren.
As per usual, love the pics
Is it a polarising filter to give the blue hue
Gotta admit I'm a bit of a drought fan myself.
After a year in Ireland I decided I'd seen enough rain in my life but then made the mistake
of returning to NZ.
I've decided even central NSW is too damp for my liking hence my attraction to WA.
I know parts get more than their fair share of precipitation but high sunshine hours are undeniable (supposedly).
Many of Melbourne and Victoria's attractions would make many move there in a heartbeat - alas being a sufferer
of SAD I'm susceptible to dreary weathers influence and will have to give it a miss much as your pics depict many
splendid and unsoaked moments.
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Re: Extrawheel
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Re: Extrawheel
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Re: Extrawheel
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby Aushiker » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:57 pm
Yes except with certain bikes such as the Surly Pugsley IIRC.J Quinton wrote:Have heard the wheel on the extra wheel doubles as a back up if one of the wheels on your bike breaks. But this only applies to the front wheel doesnt it?
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Re: Extrawheel
Postby WarrenH » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:05 pm
As a complete front wheel yes, but not if the front wheel has disk brakes. Unless you modify the Extrawheel frame, a disk hub without the disk installed (of course) still wont fit. The disk side of the hub will rub on the frame.J Quinton wrote:Have heard the wheel on the extra wheel doubles as a back up if one of the wheels on your bike breaks. But this only applies to the front wheel doesnt it?
View the third wheel as also being extra spokes and an extra rim, if the worst failure possible happens in the remotest of places. Like having a collapsed, cracked or de-laminated rim and you need disk brakes. There are some interesting vids on how to resourcefully rebuild a bike wheel by sistering a good rim to the damaged rim using tape, when you don't have a jig to true the wheel and are too stalked to remember the spoke placements.
Fingers crossed that the worst that ever happens is a puncture. Every puncture that I've had touring with the Extrawheel ... has been in the Extrawheel regardless of what tyre I'm using.
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Re: Extrawheel
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