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I also only run an insert in the back on my Chisel. It's a Vittoria XC insert inside a 2.4 tyre which is too small for sure, but so far I have never had a puncture on it since I got the bike.
Had one front wheel puncture but that was a nail or something sharp punching a clean hole into the tyre, nothing that an insert could have prevented, and easily fixed with a plug.
pascalo
Are you absolutely sure you want/need an insert for the front?
A 2.6” tyre will have a pretty heavy duty sidewall already. A pinch flat on the front wheel is probably unlikely. I appreciate you might just want to cover all bases though or maybe you’ll be hard charging through chunky gnar on this ultra?
Fwiw I run inserts on the rear wheel on all my mountain bikes and none on the front. To this day I’ve never had a pinch flat on the front even when running silly sub 20psi on my dh bike