The Salsa Beargrease fat bike impresses with a carbon frame, Rock Shox builds the specific Bluto fork, manufacturers such as Felt rely on electric support with a Bosch motor for fat bikes and the Eurobike 2014 is likely to be a veritable rendezvous for bikes with monstrous tires: The fat bike trend is only just starting to gather momentum for the 2015 season.

The bike manufacturer Transalpes, which already showcased a fat bike at this year's Bike Days in Solothurn with the Fat 5 model, has an affinity for the trend in this country. Transalpes' sister company Trail Supply is now replenishing the range of accessories for the most important bike trend for the 2015 model year:

The Ensõ685 rim from Italian manufacturer Kuroshiro is now available from Trail Supply. With a width of 85 millimeters, it can take on the widest tires up to 4.8 inches and can also be ridden tubeless without any problems. The single-walled rim base is designed in such a way that the zigzag spoke nipples seal themselves in conjunction with latex milk and no rim tape is required. A narrow rim flange is designed to guarantee a tight fit and easy mounting of the tire. Thanks to the unique carbon structure, the rim should continue to offer plenty of stiffness and allow for extremely high spoke tension.

With a weight of around 445 grams per rim, the Ensõ685 rim has another unique selling point. Trail Supply, which also specializes in wheel construction, claims that up to 2.5 kilos of rotating mass can be saved compared to conventional fat bike wheels. A Kuroshiro wheelset built with lightweight hubs and spokes weighs a very modest 1450 to 1600 grams.

www.kuroshiro.it

www.trailsupply.ch